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