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Although he didn’t record under his own name until 1998, Olu Dara enjoyed a reputation among the jazz avant-garde’s leading trumpeters in the mid-’70s on. Early-’80s information and performances using the David Murray Octet as well as the Henry Threadgill Sextet uncovered Dara to be always a daring, roots-bound soloist, …

Probably one of the most high-profile tasks from the endlessly prolific bassist and maker Bill Laswell, Materials pioneered a groundbreaking fusion of jazz, funk, and punk that also incorporated components of hip-hop and globe music prior to either’s entrance in to the mass cultural awareness. Shaped in 1979, the very …