• Digisleeve EDITION

Spirit Stronger Than Blood pays homage to some of the recordings that shaped my musical-spiritual aesthetic: Charles Mingus’s Changes 1&2, Booker Little’s Strength and Sanity, Pharaoh Sanders’s Peace and Love, Clifford Thornton’s Gardens of Harlem, Alice Coltrane’s Ptah, The El Daoud. Each of these artists, as different as they are from each other, shared a commonality of intention that set me on my life and career path. Their music is spiritual, political, romantic, at turns angry and peaceful, and inspires us to transcend and challenge the inequities of quotidian existence in order to make the world a better place, to heal the broken world (tikkun olam).

PERSONNEL:
Frank London - (trumpet)
Marilyn Lerner - (piano)
Hilliard Greene - (bass)
Newman Taylor Baker - (drums)
Greg Wall - (sax on tracks 2,3&4)

Recorded at Brooklyn Recording July 2023
 
TRACKS:
01. Let There Be Peace
02. Resilience
03. Spirit Stronger Than Blood
04. Poem for a Blue Voice
05. Abundant Love
06. Resistance/Healing