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5:57am Part 1. The Key by Immanuel Wilkins from Omega
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An image of the cover of the record album 'Omega' by Immanuel Wilkins

Omega by Immanuel Wilkins, released on Blue Note in 2020.

"When Immanuel Wilkins created the music for “Mary Turner – An American Tradition,” one of many standout songs from his stellar debut album, Omega, he wanted to craft something that spoke directly to the Black experience in America. Wilkins, an alto saxophonist and bandleader from Upper Darby, Pa., wasn’t thinking about anything positive, he wanted to convey the deep pain his people have endured in this country for centuries. Mary Turner, a Black woman who was eight months pregnant, was killed in Georgia during a lynching rampage in 1918, after she publicly decried her husband’s murder by the same means. A mob of white people hanged her upside down, burned her, then cut out her baby and stomped on her unborn child..." - Blue Note

https://www.bluenote.com/spotlight/immanuel-wilkins-omega/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVr-AYeI8-s&list=PLEz_mLoNZMeSp0H-ydVlhJNu3eAoXk7rt&index=4

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@Linnefaulk And it gets more dramatic as the sun sets and the moon rises…

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Concert: Immanuel Wilkins Quartet nieuw hoogtepunt Brussels Jazz Festival
https://writteninmusic.com/concertverslag/immanuel-wilkins-quartet-nieuw-hoogtepunt-brussels-jazz-festival/

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Immanuel Wilkins - Blues Blood

There’s an awful lot of meat on these particular bones. A mix of jazz styles, atmospheres, lyrics, languages…it’s going to take quite a long time to really grok.

None of which is to say it’s not approachable!

Co-produced by Meshell Ndegeocello, featuring lots of vocalists including Cecile McLorin Salvant…it’s all quite ambitious.

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