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Rubyana: Amazing Grace/Rubyana/Epistrophy

Read "Amazing Grace/Rubyana/Epistrophy" reviewed by Colin Buttimer

by Colin Buttimer
August 25, 2003

These three discs share the same players: Rubyana on flute, Al MacDowell on bass, Sharaye White on vocals, Frank Marino on drums, Yusef Ali on conga drums, and Eddie Boubay on timbales. I must confess when I read the makeup of the group I suspected the music might be somewhat one- dimensional, but for the most part I was wrong. Amazing Grace contains five versions of the tune. The music is of course a spiritual, but strangely ...