Mark Masters and Billy Harper - Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance! (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

On a pair of thrilling new albums for longtime label home Capri Records, acclaimed arranger and bandleader Mark Masters works his re-compositional magic on the work of two masters of the tenor saxophone, both very different but equally brilliant composers. With Sam Rivers 100, Masters honors the 2023 centenary of avant-garde jazz pioneer Sam Rivers, while on Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance! he explores the wide-ranging compositions of spiritual jazz legend Billy Harper. Both albums, to be released in June 2025, feature ingenious new arrangements for different configurations of the Mark Masters Ensemble, and are graced by the breathtaking solo work of Billy Harper. “Billy Harper is a longtime hero of mine,” says Masters, who first invited the tenor great to guest on his 1990 album Priestess, which also featured trombonist and Charles Mingus sideman Jimmy Knepper. “Billy is a very gifted composer whose music is singular, and I also love his playing.”

TRACKLIST

1 Was It Here…Is It There?
2 The One Who Could Make The Rain Stop
3 Croquet Ballet
4 If One Could Only See
5 Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance!
6 The Seventh Day
7 Insight
8 Credence



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