Producers: Donald Brown & Kenny Garrett Executive Producer: Gretchen ValadeSenior Director of A+R: Will WakefieldVP, Creative Services + Production: Maria Ehrenreich Product Manager: Matthew Jurasek

Photography, Art Direction + Design: Hollis King Assistant: Izac SissokoCover Painting: Rudy GutierrezMakeup: Clyla DestinyBack cover photo/Outer Jacket courtesy of Jahnkoy 2021

Recorded at Sound on Sound – Montclair, NJ Engineer: Katsuhiko NaitoAssistant Engineer: Alex PoeppelAdditional Engineers: Jonathan Duckett, Ray Ketchem, Andy Kravitz, Dave Kowalski, J.J. Freire

Studio Owner: David AmlenMixed at Sound on Sound – Montclair, NJ Engineer: Katsuhiko NaitoAssistant Engineer: Chris GoldMastered at Sterling Sound – Edgewater, NJ Mastering Engineer: Greg Calbi

Management:Vernon H. Hammond, III, CFP • The Management Ark vernon@managementark.com

Booking:Maria Matias • Maria Matias Music maria@mariamatiasmusic.com

Endorsements: Selmer France, Selmer USA, Selmer China, Rico Reeds

1. It’s Time to Come HomeKenny Garrett – alto saxophone Vernell Brown, Jr. – piano Corcoran Holt – bassRonald Bruner – drumsRudy Bird – percussionJean Baylor – vocalsDreiser Durruthy – bata, vocals

2. HargroveKenny Garrett – alto saxophone, vocals, electric piano Maurice Brown – trumpetVernell Brown, Jr. – pianoCorcoran Holt – bassRonald Bruner – drumsRudy Bird – percussionLinny Smith – vocalsChris Ashley Anthony – vocalsSheherazade Holman – vocals

3. When the Days Were DifferentKenny Garrett – alto saxophone, electric piano Johnny Mercier – piano, organCorcoran Holt – bassRonald Bruner – drumsRudy Bird – percussionLinny Smith – vocalsChris Ashley Anthony – vocalsSheherazade Holman – vocals

4. For Art’s SakeKenny Garrett – alto saxophone, electric piano Vernell Brown, Jr. – pianoJohnny Mercier – Fender RhodesCorcoran Holt – bassRonald Bruner – drumsRudy Bird – percussion

All songs written and arranged by Kenny Garrett/Kenny Garrett Publishing (BMI) except “Hargrove” includes an interpolation of “A Love Supreme” by John Coltrane approved by Jowcol Music (BMI)

5. What Was That?Kenny Garrett – alto saxophone Vernell Brown, Jr. – piano Corcoran Holt – bassRonald Bruner – drumsRudy Bird – percussion

6. Soldiers of the FieldsKenny Garrett – alto saxophone Vernell Brown, Jr. – piano Corcoran Holt – bassRonald Bruner – drumsRudy Bird – snareLenny White – snare

Soldats des ChampsKenny Garrett – alto saxophone, electric piano Vernell Brown, Jr. – pianoCorcoran Holt – bassRonald Bruner – drumsLenny White – snareRudy Bird – percussion, snare

7. Sounds from the AncestorsKenny Garrett – alto saxophone, piano intro and outroPedrito Martinez – vocals, congasVernell Brown, Jr. – pianoCorcoran Holt – bassRonald Bruner – drumsRudy Bird – percussionDwight Trible – vocals

8. It’s Time to Come Home (original) Kenny Garrett – alto saxophone Vernell Brown, Jr. – piano Corcoran Holt – bassRonald Bruner – drums Rudy Bird – percussion

The Spirit is in The SoundYou know it when you hear itThat dialogue of your heartbeat with your mother’s as you grow in the womb The Sound is comfort, nurturing and affectionBelonging, kindred and connectionSonic echoes from mothers and fathers of long, long ago...The Ancestors of Always, Forever and Infinity

How you survive, strive and thrive will all be heavily contingentUpon how in tune you remain, how in rhythm you evolveHow improvisational you become and how creative you continue Navigating within the knowing of the cycles, the lessons and the essence

Everyone has a Spirit and, within that Spirit, a SoundThe Sounds of some rise like high Cs above the frayAnd it is they who fearlessly lead the wayThey comprise the Frontline: Soldiers of Wisdom, Power and Resilience They take the hits because they can take the hits For forward the message they must takeTranslating the Spirit that has always been in singular sheets of identity Yet in ways we all can recall...if we but shut our eyes and listen

Kenny Garrett possesses a Sound that places him in the vanguard of his field Through that majestic richness of said Sound we distinctly hearThe barefoot dances of our familial celebration on red clay earthThe swag of our innovative style, Our beauty in most natural statesThe undue anguish ever just above or beneath our emotional surfaceThe hope instilled in our seeds, The honoring of our ancestorsThe serenity in daily prayer, The funk of our noirish fightLessons in optimal living and the hope for a graceful grow-old toward ascension

Reconnecting to the Sound that fills your heart like communion In the temple, the barbecue or the family reunionBe it the church, synagogue, mosque, or the plantationThe Spirit is in the Sound wherever worship is taking place

Kenny Garrett, arguably the fieriest saxophonist in improvisational music today, has been onthis path since his first American major label offerings on Atlantic Records; Prisoner of Love(1989) which included “Sayydah’s Single File Groove,” “Peace for a Dream” and “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,” among others, and African Exchange Student (1990) which featured “Ja-Hed,” “Someday We’llAll Be Free” and “Nostradamus.” His purposefulness and spiritual connectedness have always resonated with strength – from one who has been selective about whom he follows, to one with bold yet humble intention to lead, to leader excelsior.

Like all great leaders, he ever remains a student – of histories ancient and modern, and of all the musicians he plays with both as a sideman and as The Man. Which means his music is always fortified by some new information. Though this music began conception in November 2019 – before the onset of ‘the pandemic’ – this music marinated during extended time for reflection – taking in a flood of disquieting new documentaries pertaining to the ongoing struggle of ‘the people’ worldwide – how those struggles are erupting in the smaller world of today where the people have become the third eye, and how the clock is ticking on maggot-infested old ways destined for a fervently needed new day.

Kenny’s quintet expands and contracts for each selection with anointed guests whose contributions illuminate and put the exclamation point on the statements within – be it the opener’s closing prayer, the Spirit as refracted from the divine female voice, or auxiliary forces of batterie on the battlefield of “Soldiers.”

The Drum is especially highlighted in “For Art’s Sake,” a piece that shows and proves the connection between Art “Buhaina” Blakey’s Be-Bop influence on Nigeria’s Tony Oladipo Allen who volleyed back with Afrobeat, on intoThe Garrett Quintet’s Ronald Bruner who lights things up with the staccato cadences of modern jazz drumming today. All in turn inspired Kenny to put his horn down for a minute to take a rare electric piano solo. This piece is arguably the most explicit expository of how Kenny seamlessly connects the past, the present and the future and, by extension, the way our culture carries on sacred traditions while blazing trails not yet known – Full Circle in Congo Square.

Miles, Hubbard, Shaw, Hutcherson, Hargrove and Corea Wallace, Mulgrew, Kirkland, Geri and JarreauPharoah, Hancock, Valdés and BlanchardHaynes, Tain, Marcus, Q-Tip, Stern and Sting

In his ongoing mission to be authentic to history and his destiny Kenny is channeling and translating Codes from the CreatorHis sensitivity enables him to tap the through-line of Spirit Vibrating at high-points of frequency – beyond false boundaries To instinctively gravitate toward Reflectors of Spirit

As he is seeking Kindred Spirits, they have been seeking him, too With much magnetic force for the multitudesWhen they collide upon The Path, we all receive the blessing Feeling the FIRE from the now-Sonic BOOM Within the haunting melody of its afterglow we fully overstand Brothers and Sisters, “It’s time to come home”

Sounds From The Ancestors is Revolution in Revolutions Cop the licorice black vinyl for the Uncut Elocution

Uhuru / Sankofa / Amandla

The Spirit is in The Sound You know it when you hear it

~ A. Scott Galloway April 2021

Special Thanks:

Sayydah & Halima Garrett; Williams family; Thomas family; Abdul Al-Khabyyr family; Vernon &

Wallie Hammond; Sonny Rollins; Roy Haynes; Chick & Gayle Corea; Chucho & Lorena Valdes; Tanya & Leilani Miller; Pharoah Sanders; Javon Jackson & family; Branford Marsalis;

Jowee Omicil; Michael “Patches” Stewart; Marcus & Jean Baylor; Skip & Michelle Pruitt; Winsome Morrison-Bird; Howard Burns & family;

Johnny Mercier; Maurice Brown; Lenny White; Nat & Kathy Reeves; Steve Carrington; Cazembe Bektemba; Trevor Watkis; Thierry Girard;

Christian Laviso; Samuel Laviso, Kirk Bennett; Lula Hall; Katsuhiko Naito; Greg Calbi; Big Mike; Ibrahim

Duarte; Joseph “Foley” McCreary; Masanori Yura; Jonathan Duckett; Ray Ketchem; Andy Kravitz;

Dave Kowalski; J.J. Freire; Pedrito Martinez & family; Andrea Valentini; Dreiser Durruthy & family; Linny Smith;

Chris Ashley Anthony; Sheherazade Holman; Emilio & Janet Lyons; Loop Productions; Jean-Noël Ginibre, Ronan Palud; Blue Note Tokyo; Blues Alley- Washington, DC; DL Media – Don Lucoff & Maureen

McFadden; Nathan Horne Productions – Nathan Horne; Produzioni Sonora – Antonello Vitale & Elisa Denis; Dinstinto Agency – Aitor Corral; Maria Matias Music – Maria Matias; Jeff Doyle & Ross

McCafferty; Groov Marketing – Mark Rini & Josh Ellman; National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences; DownBeat Magazine; Mack Avenue Music

Group – Gretchen Valade, Denny Stilwell, Maria Ehrenreich, Will Wakefield, Matthew Jurasek, Cherie Erikson, Kim Akers-Rowe,

and the entire staff. Very special thanks to the musicians – Vernell, Corcoran, Rudy, and Ronald. Very special

thanks to Brother Brown for helping me to keep reaching for the sky. Very special thanks

to the John Coltrane Estate.

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Producers: Donald Brown & Kenny Garrett

Kenny Garrett – alto saxophone (all tracks), vocals (2), electric piano (2, 3, 4, 6), piano intro/outro (7)Vernell Brown, Jr. – piano (all tracks except 3)Corcoran Holt – bass (all tracks)Ronald Bruner – drums (all tracks)Rudy Bird – percussion (all tracks), snare (6)

Jean Baylor – vocals (1)Dreiser Durruthy – bata & vocals (1)Maurice Brown – trumpet (2)Linny Smith – vocals (2, 3)Chris Ashley Anthony – vocals (2, 3)Sheherazade Holman – vocals (2, 3)Johnny Mercier – piano & organ (3), Fender Rhodes (4) Lenny White – snare (6)Pedrito Martinez – vocals & congas (7)Dwight Trible – vocals (7)

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