ISHMAEL REED - The Hands of Grace LP Free Jazz A pair of Italian twins

A pair of Italian twins meet a Japanese woman in New York and form a band

The resulting album shows them moving slowly through sonic space and time

Emmett Kelly (The Cairo Gang / The Muggers) on guitar

Beginning with 2023’s One Day

Sometimes I spend so much time studying them that they start to sound to me as if they were originally written for guitar

ISHMAEL REED - The Hands of Grace LP Free Jazz A pair of Italian twins"A great pleasure to play with my favorite writer; he has transformed his literary genius to the piano in one lifetime, Bravo!" David Murray Reading Group is thrilled to announce The Hands of Grace, a new album of original music by the legendary novelist, essayist, poet, critic, and playwright Ishmael Reed (b. Tennessee, 1938). The Hands of Grace presents for the first time the original music that Reed composed for his 2021 play, The Slave Who Loved