The Leaders

Biography

The Market leaders was a veritable supergroup of leftward-leaning, mid-’80s jazz stars. Its entrance line was made up of three from the era’s essential personalities — trumpeter Lester Bowie, in the decade’s most critically acclaimed music group, the Art Outfit of Chicago; alto saxophonist Arthur Blythe, whose Columbia albums of that time period almost (however, not quite) brought free of charge jazz a way of measuring popular approval; and tenor saxophonist Chico Freeman, who produced some information that melded the very best of mainstream jazz using the interest and originality from the avant-garde. The horns coupled with pianist Kirk Lightsey, bassist Cecil McBee, and drummer Famoudou Don Moye to produce a couple of generally great, if unspectacular, information. Like the majority of (if not absolutely all) supergroups, the Market leaders existed primarily being a novelty. It appears the music group was designed even more to attract interest than to can be found as an changing innovative entity. The tempo section also documented individually for Sunnyside because the Market leaders Trio.

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