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Jim Pepper / Amina Claudine Myers / Anthony Cox / Leopoldo Fleming: Afro Indian Blues
by Donald Elfman
It's American roots music in flying colors as four simpatico musicians dig deeply at a 1991 Austrian jazz festival. Native American (Craw) Jim Pepper, African-Americans Amina Claudine Myers and Anthony Cox and Puerto Rican Leopoldo Fleming wowed the audience with “native music--the blues, jazz, Indian and African music that seems all about the passion and power to unite. The concert opens with--what else?--the blues. It's basically Billie Holiday's “Fine and Mellow, and is a down-home groove. Myers ...
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by Bill Siegel
Why now? Why review a recording of a concert that happened fifteen years ago? For one, because it's taken this long for anyone to get around to releasing the performance on CD. But even more importantly, because this is a major event and should get all the exposure possible. In 1991, at the time of the gig, Pepper was already sick with the cancer that would kill him within the year. But he's in strong form throughout, delivering ...
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by AAJ Italy Staff
Quest'inedito, suggestivo, concerto di Amina Myers e Jim Pepper, tenuto il 19 maggio 1991 al festival di Raab (Austria), documenta una delle ultime esibizioni del sassofonista, prematuramente scomparso nel 1992. L'incontro con la cantante afro-americana non poteva che avvenire sul terreno delle rispettive radici musicali: da alcuni anni sia Pepper che la Myers avevano lasciato gli ambiti d'avanguardia (il primo con Paul Motian, la seconda accanto ai protagonisti dell'AACM) per una sintesi, profondamente sentita e di grande impatto emozionale, con ...
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