blood drum spirit brings a new global vision to music, exploring great world traditions through live jazz performance. Band members have lived, played and toured on all seven continents. Percussionist royal hartigan has performed with Kenny Barron and Rudresh Mahanthappa; bassist Wes Brown has toured with Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines and Ed Blackwell; and saxophonist David Bindman has performed with Wadada Leo Smith and Anthony Braxton. They adapt elements of world cultures into their music and embed them within a uniquely American Jazz compositional and improvisational sound and style. blood drum spirit was featured in Sara Pettinella’s documentary film, We Are One, which is premiering at the Jukebox International Film Festival in Carson City in August.