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will sessions - kindred - the few records - vinyl

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Genre: Jazz - Fusion

1. Kindred
2. Seven Miles
3. Polyester People
4. Omniverse
5. Redirections
6. Phre

Coming from a city that has created some of the greatest Jazz musicians of all time from Elvin Jones and Yusef Latif to Rodney Whitaker and Kareem Riggins it’s no surprise to hear that right now one of the hottest bands in the Motor City is a Jazz band breaking boundaries and blurring the lines between Jazz, Funk, Afro-beat and Hip Hop on all levels.

This collective of young musicians is proving that Jazz in all its forms can still pull in big, enthusiastic and young crowds. They are one of the most in demand bands in the city. Thankfully in their hands Jazz is very much a contemporary thing with vibrancy rarely heard today. After an under the radar debut album and a series of James Brown like funk 7”s this brave upcoming band are getting set to release their most accomlished release to date – a six track record dedicated to their Jazz forefathers. Kindred (Few Records – September 2010) sees the Will Sessions band paying tribute to John Coltrane, Sun Ra, Miles Davis and of course the most important Jazz collective in Detroit Tribe. In fact, Tribe’s co-founder saxophonist / reedist Wendell Harrison even appears as a guest on the EPs title track. The record also features guest Jeremy Elis aka Aryo (Ubiquity Records).

Not long after coming together and releasing their debut album, Many Faces, on the Detroit independent label Few Records, the band settled in as house band at Detroit’s now-legendary Motor City Funk Night (voted the country’s best party in 2009 by New York’s Paper Magazine) where they regularly kept the wildly expanding crowd dancing into the morning. Soon came a series of stunning live collaborations with heavy hitting performers such as Guilty Simpson, Black Milk, Mayer Hawthorne, Slum Village, Monica Blaire, Phat Kat, Rickey Calloway and Billy Love.