Sacred Ground is an album by
David Murray released on the Canadian
Justin Time label. Recorded in 2006 and released in 2007 the album features performances by Murray,
Lafayette Gilchrist,
Ray Drummond, and
Andrew Cyrille which were composed for the soundtrack for
Marco Williams' film Banished (2007) on American counties in the South and Midwest that expelled blacks between Reconstruction and the Great Depression. The album features
Cassandra Wilson on two tracks singing lyrics composed by
Ishmael Reed.[1]
Reception
The
Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "Sacred Ground is a journey in time, space, and sound, one rooted in all the lineages, and yet it is a further benchmark of Murray's own decidedly marked place within it, even as it points both forward and back -- just like Reed's writing and Wilson's singing.".[2]