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The Third Decade

If only for its sublime evocation of bagpipe tunes of glory and its redemptive use of synthesizer – still an expensive plaything in the hands of most jazz musicians – saxophonist Joseph Jarman's "Prayer for Jimbo Kwesi" is the most striking cut on The Third Decade, the Art Ensemble of...

1984 RS: Not Rated

Urban Bushmen

1980

Bap-Tizum

1972

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The Art Ensemble of Chicago was arguably the most innovative jazz group to emerge in the '70s. Its compositions and collective improvisations draw from all sorts of world musics, traditional and avant-garde jazz, rhythm & blues, African music, 20th-century European art music, even rock & roll, gospel, martial music, jug-band music, and the natural sounds of human and animal voices. The quintet has...

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