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Leimert Park’s “Day of the Ancestors: Festival of Masks” focused on strategies and practices from across the African Diaspora to promote healing, wellness, intergenerational connection, and a strengthened sense of belonging.
While in Los Angeles, Derf’s musical endeavors continued to soar. He performed throughout Europe with jazz musician Eddie Harris. He toured around Canada with rock musician Burton Cummings. His command of his craft took him to South Africa’s Joy of Jazz Festival playing alongside jazz singer Dwight Trible.
Released late last year, the debut of Cosmic Vibrations featuring the acclaimed jazz vocalist
Dwight Trible on Pathways & Passages is an experience not to miss. The band assembled for the first time in August, 2017 in Los Angeles . Performing to appreciative audiences, the hypnotic combination of woodwinds, strings, percussion and one very remarkable voice is one of the finest spiritual jazz bands to arrive on the scene.
Afer a remarkable opener, Nature s Vision , a genre defying song of world music taken to a completely different level, a cover of Blue Skies is presented. It s unlike any previous performance of the 1926 Irvin Berlin ever recorded. The immense spiritual and show-stopping power of vocalist Dwight Trible, along with his ensemble, lifts a song which is standard jazz fare into an experience of the ineffable.