
A throbbing, spiritual hymn to life itself, in commemoration of the great AACM bassist Fred Hopkins, who died in January 1999. Kahil El’Zabar, Ari Brown, Malachi Favors and Archie Shepp, coursing through ballads, hard bop and improvisation, swirling with the genies of McCoy Tyner, John Coltrane and Malcolm X, and ancient questions about what it means to be free.