Kahil El'Zabar Let The Spirit Out (Live At "Mu" London)

• Kahil El'Zabar – From Your Heart
• Kahil El'Zabar – Kelan (For Phil Cohran)
• Kahil El'Zabar – Footprints
• Kahil El'Zabar – Summertime
• Kahil El'Zabar – Caravan
• Kahil El'Zabar – Trane In Mind
• Kahil El'Zabar – Kahil El'Zabar's Intro
• Kahil El'Zabar – Baya
• Kahil El'Zabar – Let The Spirit Out

• 1. From Your Heart
• 2. Kelan (For Phil Cohran)
• 3. Footprints
• 4. Summertime
• 5. Caravan
• 6. Trane In Mind
• 7. Kahil El'Zabar's Intro
• 8. Baya
• 9. Let The Spirit Out

Recorded over two nights at mu in London, Let The Spirit Out finds Chicago's Kahil El'Zabar and his Ethnic Heritage Ensemble in communion with their audience, transforming performance into ritual. The band - Corey Wilkes on trumpet, Alex Harding on baritone sax, Ishmael Ali on cello - stretches El'Zabar's new compositions and reimagined standards like 'Caravan' and 'Summertime' into spacious, free-flowing meditations. Spiritual jazz here feels both ancestral and utterly present: call-and-response rhythms unfold like prayers, melodies ripple into wordless chants. In 'From Your Heart' and the luminous closer 'Let The Spirit Out', you hear release itself - the sound of music as healing, liberation, and collective exhale.