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NAM: Song of Time

Read "Song of Time" reviewed by Rex Butters

by Rex Butters
June 2, 2004

From Clean Feed Records (“The Crazy Jazz Label”) comes NAM, meaning peace. Led by longtime Sun Ra trumpet player Ahmed Abdullah, it represents only one of many projects Abdullah oversees. During this live performance from New York's Vision Festival, NAM adeptly moves through genre walls like a penetrating vapor. Straight-ahead, funk, or holy noise, NAM acquits itself in whatever style it plays.

Abdullah suggests Don Cherry in the opening play of Ornette Coleman’s “Chippie,” but even muted Abdullah plays Abdullah. ...

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