Echoes of an Era
Echoes of an Era is an album by American R&B/jazz singer Chaka Khan, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White, released in 1982 on Elektra Records.
Echoes of an Era sees Khan interpreting jazz standards like Thelonious Monk's "I Mean You" and Duke Ellington's "Take the 'A' Train," as well as "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most," "All of Me," and "I Loves You Porgy." The album was originally not released as a Chaka Khan studio album (who was signed to Warner Bros. Records at the time) but as a band collaboration under the moniker Echoes of an Era and with all six performers credited on the album cover.
The album was digitally remastered and re-released by the Warner Music Group's sublabel Rhino Entertainment in 2003.
In 2011 album Forever by Corea, Clarke and White, they re-recorded "High Wire -- The Aerialist" and "I Loves You Porgy" featuring Khan on vocals.
Track listing
Michael Jagmin
Michael "Jag" Jagmin is an American vocalist, notable for being the lead vocalist of post-hardcore band A Skylit Drive and former lead vocalist of metal band Odd Project. Jagmin is well known for the idiosyncratic quality of his voice and possesses a wide vocal range spanning over three octaves, and the ability of making high pitched screams.
Musical career
A Skylit Drive (2008–Present)
Jagmin joined A Skylit Drive to replace original vocalist, Jordan Blake, who left for health concerns in 2007. Since then he has been featured on four full-length releases, Wires...and the Concept of Breathing, Adelphia, Identity on Fire, Rise, and ASD (2015), as well as the DVD, Let Go of the Wires.
Odd Project (2006–2007)
Jagmin was the second vocalist of the metal band Odd Project, and was featured on their second album, Lovers, Fighters, Sinners, Saints. He left the band in 2007
Of An Era and Finding Equality
In addition to his work with A Skylit Drive, Jagmin had an easy listening solo project, entitled Of An Era and operates the clothing line Finding Equality. Of An Era's only song "You Will Not Stay" can be downloaded for free on PureVolume. Jagmin later announced that all his songs in of an Era would be released through his name.
Echoes of an Era
ALBUMS
- Echoes of an Era released: 1982
Echoes Of An Era
In these desperate days where anything goes
We must take back control of this world
This is our time and the time is now
These are the echoes of an era
Remove the barriers – tear this place down
We will succeed where our ancestors failed
Their decline is the start of our rise
The new beginning has arrived
We are the ones that will inherit this earth
With all the problems they've left behind – witness the cleansing
And rid this place of the infection that fed on the minds of the weak
We are the ones – that will one day inherit this earth
With all the problems they've left behind – witness the cleansing
The time is now – we are next in line to lead this world
What will you do when there's no one left to turn to
And all you have left is yourself?
Do you have what it takes to handle the responsibility?
When everything you've known is gone
Reach outside of your circle
Dividing lines shattered to pieces by a will to unite
In this age we live in of mass communication
There's no limitation on what we can achieve
We are the ones – that will one day inherit this earth
With all the problems they've left behind
Witness the cleansing
Will you learn from their mistakes?
Or will you be your own demise?
Looking down at their graves