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ancestors CD (Innova 2008)
Disc 1
Flight/Homecoming, with Hafez Modirzadeh, soprano saxophone and royal hartigan, bells.
Excerpt from Passages, with BAOMI, voice, and royal hartigan, dondo hourglass drum and drumset.
Excerpt from Hazel's Dance, with Hafez Modirzadeh, tenor saxophone and royal hartigan, piano.
Guanshan Yue, with Weihua Zhang, Chinese Guzheng zither and royal hartigan drumset.
Excerpt from All to Myself/Soliloquy, BAOMI, poetry and Sandra Poindexter, violin.
Adzohu Kadodo Reflections, with C. K. Ladzekpo, atsimevu master drum, and royal hartigan, drumset.
Disc 2
Excerpt from Ray Hart, with Hafez Modirzadeh, soprano saxophone and royal hartigan, tap dance.
Excerpt from Hanabi, Masaru Koga, shakuhachi and royal hartigan, drumset.
I Know I've Been Changed, with BAOMI, voice and royal hartigan, percussion.
blood drum spirit: the royal hartigan ensemble live in china CD (Innova 2008) David Bindman, saxophone; Art Hirahara, piano; Wes Brown contrabass; royal hartigan, drumset and percussion.
Disc 1
Crisis in (Now's the) Time (David Bindman)
Theme.
Saxophone solo.
Piano solo.
Theme.
Flowing Stream (the people of Yunnan province, China)
Bass introduction and theme.
Piano solo.
Saxophone solo.
Theme.
Threads (David Bindman)
Introduction and Theme.
Bass solo.
Trading choruses.
Drum solo.
Song for Your Return (David Bindman)
Dreamfireswaking (royal hartigan)
Drum solo and theme.
Piano solo.
Saxophone solo.
Disc 2
Anlo Kete (the Eve People of West Africa; arrangement, royal hartigan)
Introduction and themes.
Piano solo.
Theme and coda.
Peace, Unknown (Art Hirahara)
Piano solo.
Theme.
High Definition Truth (David Bindman)
Introduction and Themes.
Saxophone solo.
Piano solo.
Theme.
Owl's Nightmare from the Generations Suite (Art Hirahara and royal hartigan)
Rhythm Changes
Piano solo.
Drum solo.
Ballad
Bass solo.
Piano solo.
Saxophone solo.
Bebop Conversations
Bass solo.
Saxophone solo.
Piano solo.
Coda.
Blood Drum Spirit CD (Transparent records 1997, Innova 2003) David Bindman, saxophone and flute; Kevin McNeal, guitar, Wes Brown contrabass, royal hartigan, drumset and percussion.
Disc 1
Disc 2
Rodney King Drums.
Double Trouble theme.
David Bindman's composition Tie Me Sufre theme and saxophone solo. The rhythms are based on the Adowa dance drumming of the Asante people of West Africa.
Papago-Saguaro Song, based on a traditional melody of the Papago and Saguaro peoples of southwest Native America.
