Tribe Hometown: Detroit Sessions 1990-2014

• Tribe – Wide And Blue
• Tribe – Freddie’s Groove
• Tribe – Ode To Black Mothers
• Tribe – Juba
• Tribe – Libra Ahora
• Tribe – Conjure Man
• Tribe – Marcus Garvey
• Tribe – Hometown
• Tribe – He The One We All Knew
• Tribe – The Slave Ship Enterprise

• 1. Wide And Blue
• 2. Freddie’s Groove
• 3. Ode To Black Mothers
• 4. Juba
• 5. Libra Ahora
• 6. Conjure Man
• 7. Marcus Garvey
• 8. Hometown
• 9. He The One We All Knew
• 10. The Slave Ship Enterprise

Strut and Art Yard focus on modern era recordings of Tribe, Detroit’s acclaimed independent jazz collective. Beginning as a musical ensemble in 1971 co-founded by Saxophonist Wendell Harrison and trombonist Phil Ranelin that soon expanded into a broad amalgam including a live collective and independent record label.

This 'Hometown: Detroit Sessions 1990-2014' compilation places the spotlight on this later era of Tribe and Rebirth Inc., with rare and previously unreleased recordings from Harrison’s WenHa / Rebirth Studios and the SereNgeti Gallery And Cultural Center. Among many highlights, Harold McKinney and his “McKinfolk” family of musicians contribute the pulsing ‘Wide And Blue’ and dance celebration ‘Juba’; Phil Ranelin re-works his classic ‘He The One We All Knew’; Poet Mbiyu Chui (Williams Moore), pianist Pamela Wise and percussionist Djallo Djakate spark on the uncompromising ‘Ode To Black Mothers’ and the rallying cry of ‘Marcus Garvey’: “If we ever get together we will astound the world.”