Archie Shepp Meets Kahil El’Zabar’s Ritual Trio – Conversations – 2LP

Black Sweat Records

If “Conversations” celebrates the memory, the artistic and spiritual heritage of bassist Fred Hopkins, – an historical member of the revolutionary AACM of Chicago – who died in January 1999, it also marks the amazing collaboration between the Ritual Trio of Kahil El’Zabar (with Ari brown and Malachi Favors) and the intrepid veteran Archie Shepp, the great voice of the ’70 afro-free-jazz. Being a tribute that invites to an intimate memory, almost an antidote to exorcise the loss of a brother, the music is spiritual hymn to life.