blood drum spirit is an American Jazz quartet that brings a new global vision to music, reaching deeply into the history of African American traditions and integrating complex rhythmic, timbral, melodic, and harmonic structures into new soundscapes and arrangements of jazz classics based on songs and rhythms from India, West Africa, China, the Philippines, and around the globe. Influenced by royal’s experiences in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Europe, they give to others through performance, teaching, and sharing music and dance of the world’s peoples, with a focus on jazz.
