Pierre Chrétien – electric piano, clavinet, organ, guitar, bass, percussion, vocals.

Steve Patterson – tenor sax, percussion, vocals.Ray Murray – baritone sax, percussion, vocals.Zakari Frantz – alto sax, flute, percussion, vocals.Philippe Lafrenière – drums, percussion, vocals.'Souljazz Orchestra: Bangin' Afrobeat straight outta Ottawa'. 'Global Positioning: Ottawa's Souljazz Orchestra'. 'The Souljazz Orchestra: Music Biography, Credits and Discography'. 'The Souljazz Orchestra heads south of the border for first major US tour, heats up mild American winter'. ^ 'Souljazz Orchestra Headlines First Major US Tour'.

'Video Selecter: The Souljazz Orchestra'. Archived from the original on 15 June 2013. Retrieved 23 April 2013.Much of Inner Fire consists of intricately arranged, harmonically adventurous Afro-Latin jazz this sound, when paired with the lush piano and vibraphone backgrounds Chrétien favors, creates resonances with Mulatu Astatke’s Ethio-jazz. The driving polyrhythms of Nigerian folk music that marked their earlier work are set aside in favor of more laid-back percussion indigenous to the Americas. The album’s highlights are its most culturally ambiguous selections, like “One Life to Live”, which mixes rhumba and reggaeton rhythms, and “Sommet En Sommet”, a dense, three-against-four shuffle influenced partially by Guinean music. “As the Crow Flies”, the single finest track, unites an unsettled horn theme and modal chord changes that would be at home on a pre-electric Herbie Hancock record with a bossa nova backbeat.Įqually fundamental to the ethos of Inner Fire is the school of spiritual jazz that blossomed in the wake of John Coltrane’s Eastern-influenced explorations of the mid–1960s. The band has always claimed the style as a source of inspiration-their 2007 album Freedom No Go Die features a rendition of Pharoah Sanders’ hypnotic half-hour opus “The Creator Has a Master Plan”.

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