Biography
Faruq Z. Bey is best known for his work with Griot Galaxy.
In the mid-1980s Bey was in a serious motorcycle accident that left him in a coma. Almost a decade passed before he returned to performing. Here he joins forces with The Northwoods Improvisers, who devoted several releases to Bey's music. His frequent collaborators, saxophonists Michael Carey and Skeeter Shelton, joined him on most of the Northwoods Improviser's recordings.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.