George W. Harris, Jazz Weekly Jeff “Siege” Siegel uses his drums and percussion to team up with Erica Lindsay/ts, Francesca Tanksley/p, Rich Syracuse/b, Feya Faku/fh and Fred Berryhill/pec for a collection of originals that mix African exoticism and folk sounds with vintage modal jazz. Clicking tongues and tribal percussion bookend the remaining 11 songs, which … Read More
by Leonid Auskern, Jazz Quad The people of the braid are the second largest in the Republic of South Africa, but in the team of musicians who recorded the album “The King of Xhosa,” it is represented by only one person. This is Feya Faku, a trumpeter and one of the most prominent representatives of … Read More
by Raul da Gama, Jazz da Gama Jeff “Siege” Siegel and the diaspora of the Xhosa people? Absolutely. Siegel is family to the Xhosa; not simply musical family, but in a tradition where every one of 8 million Xhosa raise every one of their kind. And while this may be his first recording connecting Siegel … Read More
