ISHMAEL REED - The Hands of Grace LP Free Jazz The album seemingly absorbs the

The album seemingly absorbs the frenetic excess of the band’s transatlantic travels

armed with wooden walking sticks

The resulting album shows them moving slowly through sonic space and time

Sounds that come and go

Sometimes I spend so much time studying them that they start to sound to me as if they were originally written for guitar

ISHMAEL REED - The Hands of Grace LP Free Jazz The album seemingly absorbs the"A great pleasure to play with my favorite writer; he has transformed his literary genius to the piano in one lifetime, Bravo!" David Murray Reading Group is thrilled to announce The Hands of Grace, a new album of original music by the legendary novelist, essayist, poet, critic, and playwright Ishmael Reed (b. Tennessee, 1938). The Hands of Grace presents for the first time the original music that Reed composed for his 2021 play, The Slave Who Loved