Idris Ackamoor


Idris Ackamoor is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, actor, tap dancer, producer, administrator, and director. Ackamoor is also artistic director of the world music/jazz ensemble The Pyramids.

The Pyramids

He founded the band The Pyramids in the early 1970s at Antioch College in Ohio as part of Cecil Taylor's Black Music Ensemble. The band toured Africa in the 1970s, adding musicians and new instruments, before returning to the US and settling in San Francisco. The band split up in 1977, but Ackamoor has reformed the Pyramids on several occasions. Strut Records released new studio albums by the band in the 2010s: We Be All Africans and An Angel Fell.

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