Hindi Zahra
Stand UpHandmade 2011 via Naive
During two months a year, percussionist Kahil El'Zabar teaches at the Academy of Music in the city of Bordeaux in France. In 2005 he led a 39-piece orchestra that consisted of younger French musicians plus a pair of American guests: trombonist Joseph Bowie and altoist Ernest Dawkins
Hemphill comes from a musical background -- reportedly, her grandfather was recorded in the fields by Alan Lomax in the '40s. Jessie Mae learned how to play guitar as a child by watching her relatives perform.