The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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Marion Brown and Dave Burrell
Live at the Black Musicians’ Conference, 1981
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WOULD the founding pioneers of jazz in New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century ever have thought that a future nucleus of their music would be created in Vilnius, Lithuania, more than a century later?
That is where one of the music’s hottest labels is based and among their newest releases is a marvellous 1981 encounter between alto saxophonist Marion Brown and pianist Dave Burrell at a black musicians’ conference.
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