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Idris Ackamoor + The Pyramids at October Revolution Of Jazz & Contemporary Music Festival at Fringearts
Courtesy of Mark Christman | Posted on September 20, 2018
Where
Fringearts
October Revolution Of Jazz & Contemporary Music Festival
140 N Christopher Columbus Blvd
Philadelphia, PA
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When
Sat, October 6, 2018
8:00 pm
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About
A Philadelphia premiere nearly 50 years in the making! Chicago-based alto saxophonist co-founded The Pyramids in 1972 while a student at Antioch college, where his teachers included iconic pianist Cecil Taylor. A study abroad program took Ackamoor to Europe and Africa, culminating in a musical and spiritual journey into northern Ghana, where he captured field recordings of the Frafra people of Bolgatanga and the Islam-influenced Dagomba in Tamale. The influence of those sounds with Ackamoor’s spiritual seeking resulted in The Pyramids, which has been revived in several incarnations over the ensuing decades...