Ernest Dawkins Songs List

Down Beat: "[T]here is a sense that we have been taken place not unlike those visited when seeing the band live."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Mean Ameen
• 2.3-D
• 3.Jeff to the Left
• 4.The Messenger
• 5.Haiti
• 6.Buster and the Search for the Human Genome

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Mr. PC
• 2.United
• 3.Afro Straight
• 4.Central Park West
• 5.Woody 'n You
• 6.Softly as in a Morning Sunrise
• 7.God Bless the Child
• 8.Footprint
• 9.Old Man Blues
• 10.Juju

The Wire: "...Dawkins is an inspiring voice on both tenor and alto....[His] sax/trumpet/trombone frontline straddles loose, free playing and big, brassy jazz..."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 4.Shorter Suite
• 5.Goldinger
• 6.Turtle Island Dance
• 7.Transcension
• 1.Stranger
• 2.Jo'burg Jump
• 3.The Gist of It

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Toucouleur
• 2.Third Line And The Cape Town Shuffle
• 3.Dolphy And The Monk Dance
• 4.Jazz To Hip Hop

Down Beat: 4 stars out of 5 -- "Without attempting to make grandiose statements, THE PRAIRIE PROPHET illustrates the excellence of Dawkins as a consummate jazz figure."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Hymn for a Hip King
• 2.Sketches
• 3.Balladesque
• 4.Mal-Lester
• 5.Shades of the Prairie Prophet
• 6.Mesopotamia
• 7.Baghdad Boogie

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Intro
• 2.Mean Ameen
• 3.The Messenger
• 4.Goin' Downtown Blues
• 5.Toucouleur
• 6.The Brood
• 7.Lookin' for Ninny