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Dedications

By Larry Douglas

Label: Swajola Rekords
Released: 2022
Track listing: Dedications (the Theme); Untitled; Jammin’ at the ‘Boro; Illusions; Traces; Dedications (the Variation).

The Larry Douglas Alltet: Dedications

by Jack Bowers
January 25, 2022

An Alltet is apparently two groups, one with eleven musicians, the other with six. At least that is the case on trumpeter Larry Douglas' reissued debut album, Dedications, on the first half of which he leads a tentet (and auxiliary percussionist), on the second half a sextet. The dedications, Douglas writes, are to his late son, ...

Randy Weston: African Stories, African Rhythms

by Ian Patterson
November 8, 2010

In over 60 years as a leader, pianist Randy Weston has achieved an incredible amount. He has recorded nearly 50 albums and has been hailed in the process as the natural heir to Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk. Three times he has been voted Downbeat's composer of the year, and his compositions have been recorded by ...