Jazz
Post-Bop
Jazz-Funk
Acid Jazz
Kahlil Kwame Bell - percussion
Carl Burnett - guitar (on tracks 02, 03, 04, 08 and 09)
Marc Cary - piano (on tracks 02, 03, 04, 05, 08 and 09)
D.J. Apollo - turntable (on tracks 01, 02, 03 and 08)
Gunn Fu - voice (on track 02)
Russell Gunn - fender rhodes (on track 10) , flugelhorn, keyboard (on tracks 01, 08 and 09) and piano (on tracks 01 and 06)
Andre Heyward - trombone (on tracks 02, 03, 04, 05, 08 and 09)
Sherman Irby - alto saxophone (on track 05) and flute (on tracks 03 and 04)
Shedrick Mitchell - piano (on track 07)
Lonnie Plaxico - acoustic bass
Tony Suggs - keyboard (on tracks 01 and 09)
Woody Williams - drums
Kebbi Williams - tenor saxophone (on tracks 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 08 and 09)
Trumpeter/composer Russell Gunn's Grammy-nominated Ethnomusicology, Vol. 1 was widely acclaimed upon its release (by Atlantic Records) in 1999. Now signed to Justin Time, here is the follow-up Ethnomusicology Vol.2.
Gunn's early aspirations in rap took precedence over the trumpet that he began playing in fourth grade. But by age 16, the deadline he set for his hip-hop career to take off, he was already dedicated to jazz. But rather than abandoning the music he loved, he simply applied its energy, spirit & proud intellectual rage to the jazz idiom, creating a synthesis that is truly contemporary. With his explosive nine-piece band (including turntables), Gunn weaves together elements of Cuban, Brazilian, African, D.C.'s Go Go music & hip-hop into an adventurously progressive jazz style that pays tribute to its tradition. |
