In Praise of Arkestra

Re Bill Kohlhaase’s review of the Leimert Park Jazz Festival (“Leimert Park Festival Crosses Stylistic, Generational Bounds,” Sept. 15):

I can’t argue with the fact that Horace Tapscott and the Arkestra deserve a sound system worthy of the caliber of their music, but they also deserve a review that describes their performance accurately.

Kohlhaase and I must have attended two different Arkestra performances Sunday. The closing set I heard transported an elated audience to the highest spiritual planes and beyond.

”. . . to little effect”? Jazz doesn’t get any better than this. And Diana Wimbish and the Sisters of Jazz deserve nothing but praise for bringing us two days of incredible beauty.

LOREN REICHMAN, Los Angeles