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Music Association of Detroit: Bossa Nova Bitchslap!

Read "Bossa Nova Bitchslap!" reviewed by Joshua Weiner


The Music Association of Detroit (MAD) is widely held to be one of the most prolific of the free jazz ensembles that emerged from the hothouse of 1960's radicalism. Indeed, their discography lists 49 albums to date on 50 different labels. (1969's Farewell, Nubian Princess (Maqanga, Baqanga) was split between two labels—Pretension Records label head Jimmy Ostinato liked the A side but thought the B side, a 13-saxophone free exploration of “Frère Jacques," was too commercial). MAD's latest disc, Bossa ...


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