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Afro Cuban All Stars —
Distinto, difzrente
(Nonesuch 2 79501)
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Cuba's musical heritage is
finally getting the exposure it
deserves, The latest release
from the Afro Cuban All Stars

- updates the classic "SCs sound .

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le Gusta with masterful perfor-
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tickets 280-3311.

Christmas concert at the:

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p.m. and Monday, Dec. 6, 8
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Radlands — Crowd Theory

(Songlines SGL 1526-2)
Musical category: Free for

Three new discs from:
Vancouver's fascinating avant-
garde jazz label Songlincs
sizaddie the line between
improvisation aud composition.

Edmonton-native Mark =~
Nodwell studied with Art
Lande and Cecil Taylor at
Boulder’s Naropa Institute
and brings their epic narrative
structures to his own music.

Junk Genius’ Ghost of
Electricity takes a musical tour
of the deep south on their
sophomore effort. They use
the fire and brimstone of
Southern Gothic folk culture
as a starting point for their
own work. Son Hi

Dock Boggs, Son House
and Ornette Coleman are
some of the names that filrer
through Junk Genius’ concep-
tual framework.

Veteran free jazzman Jervy

* Granelli leads his ensemble

Badlands through a set of new
compositions. In this dizzy
atmosphere some stay togeth-
er better than others —
Granelii’s own “Tango” leads
by example.

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at angus
(Columbia 7-CD box set )
Category: In the tradition.
Next Tuesday Columbia
Records will release Wenton

-, Marsalis’ massive 7-CD set

recorded over a five year

Live at the Village Vanguard

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fazz club. me ce

through a concepmual one-week

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2 Sto: jazz.
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* Ghost of Electricity (Songlines
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- named after a day of the week.

The actual dates Marsalis
brought his septet into the
club were in March of °90,

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group have moved on Live at

. the Village Vanguard docu

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