Hampton, Virginia high school champions of Pepsi’s “New Sounds Of 1972” challenge. Carlton Savage on guitar, Benjamin Crawford on bass, Wayne Jones on organ, Calvin Billups alto sax, Renon "R.J." Sumpter tenor sax, Daniel "Buddy" Slade trumpet, Alvin Paige drums, Leo Davis vocals, "Coach" Frank Johnson on vocals
Band formed in 2014 by poet, photographer and professor Thomas Sayers Ellis and saxophonist James Brandon Lewis as a tribute to the late poet, activist and Jazz Critic Amiri Baraka. With Janice Lowe (piano, voice), Luke Stewart (bass), Heru Shabaka-ra (trumpet), Randall Horton (voice, poems), Devin Brahja Waldman (synthesizer), Warren "Trae" Crudup III (drums)
