"Flutes and Roots" highlights folk musics of the world and their many descendant forms (including jazz and creatively improvised musics), featuring flutes and percussion alone and together in various formats.
Long fascinated by his principal instrument of choice, the flute, and its existence as the oldest instrument in human history, Elijah J. Thomas envisions this project as a calling. Together with voice and drums, the music produced on the flute in communion with its ancestral relatives occupies a sacred space and one that provides clarity of direction. Music intended and devised for flute, voice, and drums is music of peoples, of cultural development, and of temporal transcendence.

Flutes and Roots features the following core members:

Elijah J. Thomas: flutes, auxiliary percussion, voic
Newman T. Baker: drum kit, washboard, percussio
Nick Herman: percussio
Chris Foss: shakuhachi, bassoon

Elijah J. Thomas (he/him) is a Black Philadelphia-born, Harlem-based flutist, multi-instrumentalist, educator, creative producer, and composer/experimentalist. His learning of improvisation, composition and music education he chiefly credits to Reggie Workman, Tim Warfield, Jr., Walter Bell, Dr. Cynthia Folio, Kevin Rodgers, Dr. Allison Reynolds, and Dr. Rollo Dilworth. He has held numerous teaching positions and has four recorded projects: enuff music, vols. i and ii, Our Search, and Three Contemplations for Jason Moran. Elijah proudly serves as Jazz Program Manager for the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music (BKCM), as an Assistant Line Producer for the world-renowned Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (LCPA), as Musical Director of the non-profit performance-based organization Honk NYC!, and Co-Organizer and Music Director for the Artists For a Free World Marching Band (AFFW)

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FLUTES AND ROOTS

FLUTES AND ROOTS