For twenty-nine years, the Creative Arts Collective has been committed to presenting the best of cutting-edge jazz and creative music in Detroit and throughout the world."Soul Steppin' Through the Fabulous Ruins" the Spencer Barefield Quartet's latest CD release, is receiving rave reviews and has delighted jazz aficionados.

Donald Mayberry has performed nationally and internationally on both the jazz and classical stage with great artists like Kenny Burrell, Tommy Flanagan, Donald Bird, Barry Harris, Shahida Nurallah. Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings and many others.

Dave McMurray has most recently toured the US and Europe with Detroit R & B sensations Kem and Was Not Was, and with jazz stars Bob James, Geri Allen and others. Barefield has toured and recorded internationally with jazz greats including Richard Davis, Oliver Lake, Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Andrew Cyrille, and others. A new label Geodesic will be releasing a series of recordings of concerts produced by Barefield and Creative Arts Collective encompassing more than 25 years.

Djallo Djakate Keita has toured extensively in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Japan with Martha Reeves and The Vandellas, appearing in concert and on television and radio. He has toured Africa with Kareem Baaqi and has performed with some of Detroit's most acclaimed artists. This reunion promises to be an exciting musical experience.

B I O G R A P H I E S
Guitarist/composer A. Spencer Barefield has received numerous awards for composition and performance from ArtServe Michigan-MCACA, Meet-the-Composer/NEA Commission USA, Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest, National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Council for Arts, Arts Midwest and others. He has toured and recorded in the U.S., Canada, and Europe, extensively as a leader, soloist, and with Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Oliver Lake, Andrew Cyrille, Richard Davis and others. Barefield's recordings "Live Detroit" and "Xenogenesis 2000" (CAC label), and his Sound Aspects (Germany) releases "After the End" and "Live at Leverkusen" have received rave international reviews and honors, in and others. He is the Artistic and Executive Director of the Creative Arts Collective (CAC), whose concerts at the Detroit Institute of Arts and elsewhere earned CAC the Michigan's Governor's Arts Award for excellence and international recognition for its innovative presentations. Over a hundred of CAC's concerts have been broadcast on National Public Radio. Barefield has taught guitar and improvisation at the University of Michigan School of Music and elsewhere.

Bassist Donald Mayberry has performed nationally and internationally on both the jazz and classical stage with great artists like Kenny Burrell, Tommy Flanagan, Donald Bird, Barry Harris, Shahida Nurallah. Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings and many others.

Saxophonist David McMurray has released four CDs as a leader, the first on the Warner label, The David McMurray Show" followed by "Piece of Mind," "Afro Cubano Chant" and his latest release "Soul Searching" on the HipBop/Silva Screen label featuring Pam Wise, Marion Hayden, Wayne Gerard, Louis Resto and others. He has performed and recorded internationally with Geri Allen, Terrance Blanchard, Albert King, Herbie Hancock, Bob James, Mark Ishan, Don Was, B52s, Bonny Raitt, Gladys Knight, Griot Galaxy, Kem, Was Not Was, the Rolling Stones and others.

Drummer/percussionist Djallo Djakate Keita has toured extensively in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Japan with Martha Reeves and The Vandellas, appearing in concert and on television and radio. He has toured Africa with Kareem Baaqi and has performed with some of Detroit's most acclaimed artists, including Harold McKinney, Marcus Belgrave, Charlie Gabriel, Teddy Harris, Wendell Harrison, Ralph Armstrong, Pamela Wise, Kenny Cox, Omawale African Dancers, Sun Drummers, Ras Kente, Taslimah Bey, Harvey Thompson, Faruq Z. Bey, TransMat, Jazzhead, Dub Culture and Ibn Pori Pitts.