IMMANUEL WILKINS BLUES BLOOD | BLACK FUTURE

APPEARING: MANHATTAN MARATHON @ CITY WINERY

Friday, January 12, 2024

Immanuel Wilkins    upcoming  release  (Fall 2024 on Blue Note)  is a   work that navigates the spiritual and cultural landscape of Black 

America through long  meditations, vamps, and multiple modalities. Based on the story of Daniel Hamm who was a member of the Harlem Six, 

also known as the Blood Brothers—a group of children falsely accused and tried for murder in 1965, BLUES BLOOD | BLACK FUTURE 
explores blues as a symbol of radical optimism in the face of adversity and blood as a symbol of all things ancestral and generational
This project features his   working quartet: Micah  Thomas (piano),  Rick Rosato (bass) and Kweku Sumbry (drums) along with  vocalists, Ganavya, 
Yaw Agyeman and June McDoom. 

The music of saxophonist and composer Immanuel Wilkins is filled with empathy and conviction, bonding arcs of melody and lamentation to 

pluming gestures of space and breath. Listeners were introduced to this riveting sound with his acclaimed debut album Omega, which was 

named the #1 Jazz Album of 2020 by The New York Times. The album also introduced his remarkable quartet  ,a tight-knit unit that Wilkins

featured once again on his stunning  and critically  acclaimed sophomore album The 7th Hand.