"MAE//MAE" - Ambrose Akinmusire pt1.

In 1939 , Ms. Mattie Mae Thomas was an inmate of the women’s wing of the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchment Farm when the place was visited by an ethnomusicologist who recorded her and some of her fellow inmates in the sewing room. My mom's side of the family is from Drew, Mississippi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew,_M...) - 10 minutes down the road from where Mattie MAE Thomas was recorded. This is where my mother Cora MAE Campbell was born. MAE//MAE MATTIE MAE THOMAS - Spirit & Voice + lyrics Ambrose AKINMUSIRE - Trumpet + Composer Dean Bowman - Vocals Gerald Clayton - Piano Joe Sanders - Bass Marvin Sewell - guitar Kendrick Scott - Drums & computer Audio Manipulations: alexander overington Mixed by: Dave Darlington Video by : Laura Pleifer