When neighborhood friends from Church Hill in Richmond, VA launch their music careers as teens in the face of Jim Crow, segregation in the music industry, and the early civil rights movement, they emerge as unsung pioneers, innovators, and legends in jazz, funk, and soul. As originators, their music has collectively been sampled thousands of times, transforming the industry and the careers of some of the biggest-selling artists globally. Now as elders, urgency has set in to preserve their legacies, and the memory of their hometown neighborhood, threatened by erasure due to urban decay and gentrification. 

Featured artists and appearances include Lonnie Liston Smith (Cosmic Echoes, Betty Carter, Miles Davis, Pharoah Sanders); Wah Wah Watson (Motown Funk Brothers, Michael Jackson, Maxwell); Clement Burnette, Sr.(Ujima, Anglo Saxon Brown, Silk); “Little Tommy” Tyrone Thomas (The Whole Darn Family, Patti Labelle, The Jarmels ); Ray Smith (The Jarmels); Cliff Fuller (Jazz Poets’ Society); Fyabird Phenix.