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Libation for Mr. Brown: Bid 'Em In...

Matana Roberts · 2011

Context

Piece from Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres, released on Constellation on May 10, 2011, first installment of a cycle planned in twelve chapters and named after Marie Thérèse Coincoin. Recorded live at the Hotel2Tango studio in Montreal with a large ensemble, then cut down from a 90-minute concert to about an hour, the album blends poetry, free jazz, and popular forms around African American history and memory.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to AACM, Current scene (New York, Chicago, worldwide). Among the origins and influences of AACM: Free jazz.

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