With his September 1, 2018 passing the jazz world lost a truly singular pianist-composer-bandleader and endless seeker of the African essence of music and spirituality. This panel will discuss the unprecedented African Rhythms legacy of this NEA Jazz Master, who in his own words came to be a storyteller, a quest he achieved through a vast sphere of influences ranging from his Brooklyn homeboy Max Roach, to Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk, to mystical Sufi masters and global scholars.

Moderator: Willard Jenkins (DC Jazz Festival).

Panelists: T.K. Blue, Gail Boyd (Gail Boyd Artist Management), Jacques Muyal, Min Xaio-Fen.