Hannibal Lokumbe

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Lauren Coyle Rosen is a cultural anthropologist, artist, and author of Fires of Gold, Law in Light, and seven volumes of poetry and art.

Hannibal Lokumbe is an award-winning composer, jazz musician, poet, author, and educator whose career spans over six decades. In addition to more than 150 musical compositions written and commissioned for orchestra and smaller ensembles, he has published three volumes of poetry: The Ripest of My Fruits, Love Poems to God, and Trilogy: Freedom Dance Cycle.

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This is a captivating, vital portrait and spiritual biography of the pathbreaking orchestral composer and visionary jazz musician Hannibal Lokumbe.

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Introduction: Musical Alchemy and Spiritual Liberation

1. The Passages of Youth in Texas
2. New York City and the Jazz Years
3. Composing the Spiritatorios
4. The Jonah People and Becoming the Work
5. The Music Liberation Orchestra in Prisons and Schools
   Conclusion: Pure Mind Has No Time
   Coda: The Living Temples
   After Coda: The Shadow, poem by Hannibal Lokumbe, 1976
   Notes
   Acknowledgments
   Bibliography