Album Notes

THE HAWK PROJECT was created to promote spiritual awareness and creativity through a blend of Native American music, jazz and free improvisation.

The musicians include two Native American performers, Dennis Yerry and Ken Littlehawk, recently featured on the Ken Burn's documentaries Lewis and Clark and The West, as well as other talented jazz musicians and composers: Gus Mancini, and Ken Lovelett.

The messages spoken of in The Hawk Project are of the earth. The music is designed to help us remember that as human beings we are all one nation together and that we share Mother Earth with the other nations including the winged ones, the four-legged, the swimmers, the creepy-crawlers and the plant nations.

The pure tones of Native flutes, the intensity of pow-wow drums, hand drums, rattles, along with bass clarinet, saxophone, keyboards & upright bass, fuse together into a music filled with beauty, depth, love & tears and finally hope for the future.