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Savagery

by Irwin Hall

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The year was 2015 and I just finished watching Ryan Coogler’s powerful work Fruitvale Station about the murder of Oscar Grant III. Though our lives were very different, I identified with Oscar immediately, portrayed powerfully by Michael B. Jordan. It was my first time seeing and identifying so personally with a character on screen. It’s one thing to read and study about our plight, but another to be completely immersed into the story through film. I cried so deeply that night. After what seemed like forever, I picked up my horn to find some comfort. I turned on my phone recorder and this was the first thing that came out of my horn, note for note. I took the piece into the studio the following year, but was too scared to release it for fear of judgement. The doubts, the fears, the concerns (read: the conditioning) had done their work and I self-censored.

Now in June 2020, it’s amazing what three months of quarantined silence, years of being forced to helplessly watch your people being graphically murdered on screen, and the collapse of your very way of life will do to notions of fear and doubt. Gone are the days of second guessing every sentence. Of staying in line. Of protecting frail feelings. They are lynching us in the streets, murdering children in the park, shooting us down in our homes. We stand, we shout, we fight, we unify, we organize. We condemn the savagery and move towards righteousness.

POWER to the people!

-Irwin Hall

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released June 12, 2020
Irwin Hall - Tenor Saxophone
Joel Ross - Vibraphone
Michael King - Piano
Nimrod Speaks - Bass
Kassa Overall - Drums

Written by Irwin Hall & Michael King
Produced by Irwin Hall
Recorded at Bunker Studios, Brooklyn, NY
Recorded on January 7 2017
Recording Engineer: Todd Carder
Mixing Engineer: Francois Laforest
Mastered by Mike Fossenkemper, Turtletone Studios NYC

Photo Credit - Natali Deftereos

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Irwin Hall New York, New York

IRWIN HALL is a saxophonist, flautist, bass clarinetist, composer and bandleader. He went to Princeton for East Asian Studies and, yes he speaks Japanese. He got a Grammy nom for his work with trumpeter Theo Croker and he leads his own band called the Irwin Hall Organ Trio. They are dope. I mean really, really funky. And they swing. Hard. They’d have gigs, but the ‘rona. So buy the music instead ... more

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