Greater Harmony
Jul 31, 2021
3 minutes
—TED PANKEN
“This is a voice right out of them cotton fields, out of the neighborhood.”
n the concluding section of Marty Ehrlich’s gold-standard booklet notes for (New World), a seven-CD extravaganza culled from the 180 audio and visual documents contained in the Julius Hemphill Archive at NYU’s Fales Library, Ehrlich reminds us that Hemphill (1938-1995)—with whom he collaborated closely for a decade, and whose music he played and organized posthumously with the Julius Hemphill Saxophone Sextet—“would never
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