This oySongs-only live album and premiere performance was recorded on April 16, 2007, at the Charles Garner Recital Hall for Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Memorial Day). This stirring song-cycle is an original setting of the Yizkor liturgy and features Cantor Martin Levson with composer David Chevan and the acclaimed Afro-Semitic Experience. Warren Byrd, piano; Baba Coleman, congas; Stacy Phillips, dobro; Jesse Chevan, drums; Will Bartlett, reeds.
An extraordinary jazz album featuring the East Coast's top players exploring Jewish music and African-American spirituals through a jazz lens. Featuring David Chevan on bass and Warren Byrd on piano plus numerous other musicians, ASE investigates the musical bond between their peoples.