Continuum

Jazz Times
On The Continuum, the EHE introduces two newcomers, saxophonist Ernest Dawkins (replacing Ed Wilkerson) and percussionist Herold Murray. With the addition of Murray, the group yields both a fuller sound and surprisingly calmer rhythmic pulse, which frees Dawkins and trombonist Joseph Bowie to deliver more elongated melodic statements. The result is an amazing tribal jazz record that could rival any drum and bass track, hands down.... The Continuum also amounts to one of the EHE's funkiest and most accessible offerings of recent times.

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[T]his recording does little to taint [The Ethnic Heritage Ensemble's] reputation for intelligent and sensitive cross-cultural exploration. Percussion has been a cornerstone for the group in the past, and is even more so on this date.... [The group puts] forth a music whose apparent simplicity is offset by a barely harnessed force and power, a confrontational freedom.... One can't help but appreciate such contained fire.

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