Sanctified Shells
Context
Title track of the album Steve Turre devoted to his ensemble of conch shells, released on Antilles on February 23, 1993, with Robin Eubanks and Renaldo Jorge on shells and Dizzy Gillespie as a guest on another track. Turre, who credits Rahsaan Roland Kirk with encouraging him to play conch shells, wrote or co-wrote all ten tracks.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban. Among the origins and influences of Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban: Afro-diasporic roots, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).