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Art Ensemble of Chicago People in Sorrow Play Loud! Productions pl-185 American Jazz musicians have an extended but imperfect history with France. Usually celebrated as the new thing when first in Europe they become too familiar if they stay too long and settle there. Still the renumeration and support does give them some respite before they sometimes resume their careers stateside. These 1960s-1970s discs chronicle that situation. One of the avatars of The New Thing alto… Read More