Tuskegee Experiment
Context
Composition by Don Byron from the album Tuskegee Experiments, whose title refers to the Tuskegee study (1932-1972), conducted on hundreds of Black sharecroppers without their knowledge. The album, which features Bill Frisell, Reggie Workman and Ralph Peterson, among others, alternates original pieces by Byron, Ellington and Schumann.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Downtown New York, No Wave. Among the origins and influences of Downtown New York, No Wave: Free jazz, Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk, Free improvisation and European free.