Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids: We Be All Africans review – Afro-jazz-fusion veterans keep fire burning

(Strut)It starts with a rumble of percussion and kalimba thumb piano, which leads into a chanted chorus – “We be all Africans now” – before Idris Ackamoor moves in with a cool, driving alto saxophone solo. The new studio album from this US west coast band is an impressively fresh-sounding affair, considering that they started in the early 70s, broke up at the end of that decade, and then reformed when it became clear that there was still a demand for their Afro-jazz-fun...

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