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Shaped in the past due 60s in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, by drummer Charles ‘Bobo’ Shaw and actor-poet Ajule Rutlin, Handbag was directly influenced by Chicago’s AACM. It had been an attempt to market black performers and motivate co-operation instead of competition. Its most well-known members had been Oliver Lake …

Oliver Lake can be an explosively unpredictable soloist, somewhat comparable to Eric Dolphy within the ultra-nimble way he traverses the entire selection of his primary horn, the alto. Lake’s astringent saxophone audio is his brand — piercing, bluesy, and biting in the way of the Maceo Parker, it had been …