Since the group began "giving" they played at over 50 'Ol Folks Homes and elementary schools throughout the Detroit Metropolitan area.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ali_and_the_Silver_Flutes_Flurish.jpg Ali, the group leader was born in Detroit but spent most of his life as a professional jazz bass player in New York City.
Ali is quoted in a Detroit News article, dated May 28, 1974, entitled: Giving...Artists share their music with elderly.
"Lend us your ears and we will return them with the sound of paradise, of jungle chants and murmuring mountain forests, of peaceful meditative mornings and quick excitement."
National Endowment for the Arts, 1975 and 1976 for the composition of " Asalat" (i.e. prayer) 5 movement suite for 5 flutes, 4 basses, 1 tuba, 5 ancestral drums.
The Detroit Free Press, 1974 "Sound Sends Cherished Ones" (free music therapy for the elderly) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Detroit_News_Tuesday_May_28,_1974_pg2.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Detroit_News_pg_2_Tuesday_May_28,_1974.jpg Ali's Programs: Save the Children and Keep the Ol' Foke Warm and Fed His son, Ali Jackson, Jr., is a jazz drummer and former drummer of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.