Label: 32 Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Line Games; Pyramidal Vision; Mardi Gras; M'Wandishi; Song Bird; Joyous Lake; Starbright; Eyes; Law; Fall; Deeda; Starbright Epilogue; Masquerada; Nefertiti; Blue Macaw; City Lights; Prelude; Epilogue.

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The Complete Muse Recordings

By Dom Um Romao

Label: 32 Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Dom's Tune, Cravo E Canela, Family Talk, Ponteio, Braun-Blek-Blu, Adeus Maria Fulo, Ginga Gingou, Wait on the Corner, Lamento Negro, Highway, The Angels, The Salvation Army, Cosinha

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The Real Thing

By Louis Hayes

Label: 32 Records
Released: 1999

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Article: Album Review

Bobby Hutcherson: In The Vanguard

Read "In The Vanguard" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
December 1, 1999

The reissue of Bobby Hutcherson's live Village Vanguard session from December 5-6, 1986 isn't the first. It's such a fine album that it's been issued quite a few times and has garnered high ratings. 32 Jazz has included Bob Blumenthal's original liner notes in which he lists several from the long list of jazz artists who've ...

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Roy Ayers: Stoned Soul Picnic

by Douglas Payne
December 1, 1999

Stoned Soul Picnic is vibraphonist Roy Ayers' third and probably best solo album, made in 1968 while he was still a part of Herbie Mann's group. Ayers stands clearly in the shadow of Bobby Hutcherson on this primarily modally-oriented date, sounding nothing like the groove-meister he would become known as later in the 1970s.Producer ...

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Buster Williams: Pinnacle

Read "Pinnacle" reviewed by Douglas Payne

by Douglas Payne
December 1, 1999

One of the great losses to jazz is that Herbie Hancock's 1970-73 Mwandishi band could not have been as profitable as it was protean, progressive and ever too-briefly productive. Launched from the spaces that fostered Bitches Brew, Hancock introduced elements of both the avant-garde and soul jazz to create a groove that was as unusual and ...