Blog April 28, 2011
Discography: Reimagining Africa: From Popular Swing to the Jazz Avant-Garde
1. Art Ensemble of Chicago -"Ancient Future" (Art Ensemble of Chicago vol.1)
2. Jackie McLean - "Appointment in Ghana" (Jackie's Bag)
3. Art Blakely - "Dinga" (Holiday for Skins)
4. Thomas J. Marshall - "Arwhoolie (Cornfied Hollar)"
5. Jason Moran - "RAIN" (Artist in Residence)
6. Art Ensemble of Chicago -"Promenade Cote Bamako II"
7. Duke Ellington - "Jungle Blues" (Jungle Blues Volume 8)
8. Duke Ellington - "Jungle Nights in Harlem" (Best of...)
9. Louie Armstrong - "Shine" (The Essential Louis Armstrong)
10. Billie Holiday - "Strange Fruit" (Ken Burnz Jazz)
11. Duke Ellington - "Come Sunday" (Black, Brown and Beige)
12. Charlie Parker - "Ko Ko" (Ken Burns Jazz)
13. Charlie Parker - "Salt Peanuts" (Jazz at Massey Hall)
14. Dizzy Gillepse - "Manteca" (Ken Burns Jazz)
15. Charles Mingus - "Freedom" (Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus)
16. Charles Mingus - "Original Fables of Faubus" (Charles Mingus Presents...)
17. Art Blakely - "Feast" (Holiday for Skins)
18. Max Roach - "Triptych-Prayer/Protest/Peace" (We Insist! Freedom Now Suite)
19. Archie Shepp - "Malcolm, Malcolm - Semper" (Fire Music)
20. John Coltrane Quartet - "Nature Boy" (The New Wave in Jazz)
21. Art Ensemble of Chicago - "Number 1"
22. Muhal Richards Abrams - "Bloodline" (Blu Blu Blu)
23. Art Ensemble of Chicago - "Fanfare for the Warrior" (Fanfare for the Warrior)
24. Amina Claudine Myers - "African Blues" (Salutes Bessie Smith)
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