Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids

Saxophonist and composer Idris Ackamoor is best-known as the founder and leader of the Pyramids, an Afrocentric world music and spiritual jazz group whose sound emerges from a fertile creative zone that overlaps the aesthetic terrain explored (like Sun Ra and the Art Ensemble of Chicago, but with different emphasis). They released a trio of recordings during the 1970s -- Lalibela, King of Kings, Birth/Speed/Merging -- that proved highly influential to several generations of artists. After a long period of inactivity, they were reconvened by Ackamoor in 2015 as a celebrated tou...