- jazz
- 59 min
- 7 tracks
- Delmark Records
What It Is! is an album by American jazz percussionist Kahil El'Zabar, recorded in 2012 and released on Delmark. It was the debut of a quartet comprising three young players from the school of Chicago's AACM: tenor saxophonist Kevin Nabors, pianist Justin Dillard and bassist Junius Paul. The album includes five originals and two jazz standards by John Coltrane: "Impressions" and "Central Park West".
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Grave, spare, intimate and character-led.
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- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
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Tracks
- 1The Nature Of9:55
- 2Impressions9:48
- 3What It Is!4:05
- 4Song of Myself11:43
- 5Central Park West9:38
- 6From the Heart4:04
- 7Kari10:05
7 tracks, 59 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Kahil El’Zabar Quartet
- Label
- Delmark Records
- Released
- February 19, 2013
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
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