| Notes: | Notes by Tom Terrell on container insert.
"All compositions by Ernest Dawkins, Dawk Publishing, ASCAP except :Lookin' for ninny" by Ameen Muhammad, Dawk Publishing, ASCAP"-- Container.
Camera, Tom Koester ... [et al.] ; editor, Steve Wagner ; audio, Steve Wagner, Eric Butkus.
Ernest Dawkins, alto and tenor sax; New Horizons Ensemble (Maurice Brown, trumpet; Steve Berry, trombone; Darius Savage, bass; Isaiah Spencer, drums).
Recorded live at the original Velvet Lounge July 14, 2005.
Also available on compact disc.
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| Summary: | Recorded at the Velvet Lounge on July 14, 2005, The Messenger's melody harmonic-rhythm-tonic DNA matrix is encoded with all that came before and all that's happening now with Chicago jazz. This is music that rocks a funky-tight nappy-headed swing shift like it ain't no big thing. This is music that huffs, puffs and laffs like Jr. Wells a half-pint up. This is music that rolls like church, dances like Africa and strong-arms beats 'n' bops like Art Blakey when he had Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan and Curtis Fuller in the Jazz Messengers. This is music that could only be conceived-written-arranged-performed by the Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble.
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