Here Because of Hope: Transparent Ocean Blue Vinyl 2LP 2025BF40% bassist Gene Taylor

bassist Gene Taylor

one for ’grew

These 1969 recordings (released 5 years later) combine Shepp’s free jazz bonafides and a blend of blues and funk through an African lens

the music travels a wide range of American music

Here Because of Hope: Transparent Ocean Blue Vinyl 2LP 2025BF40% bassist Gene TaylorHere Because of Hope 2LP housed in a gatefold sleeve with printed inners, pressed on transparent ocean blue colour vinyl Ezra Collective's Here Because Of Hope is the most ambitious and personal record of their career conceived as a body of work split into three spiritual and geographical movements, the album traces the movement of Black people across continents and decades, from the music of Africa to the rhythms of the Caribbean, and home to the