Dogon A.D.

Julius Hemphill · 1972 · Black Artists Group (BAG), Saint-Louis

Context

Recorded in February 1972 in St. Louis in the orbit of the Black Artists Group, the multidisciplinary collective Hemphill co-founded in 1968. Since several BAG musicians who had been planned did not show up, the session was done as a quartet with cello, and historian Benjamin Looker calls it "an almost accidental classic". The title refers to the Dogon of West Africa and their dances "adapted" for Western visitors.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Collectives and lofts (BAG, loft jazz). Among the origins and influences of Collectives and lofts: Free jazz, AACM.

Sources

• EN: Dogon A.D.
• EN: Black Artists Group
• EN: Julius Hemphill

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