The Great Pretender (Lester Bowie album)
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| Studio album by Lester Bowie | ||||
| Released | 1981 | |||
| Recorded | June 1981 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 42:44 | |||
| Label | ECM | |||
| Producer | Manfred Eicher | |||
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| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | |
The Great Pretender is the first album by Lester Bowie recorded for ECM and released in 1981.
The Allmusic review by Michael G. Nastos awarded the album 4 stars stating "The Great Pretender is a perfect title for this effort, a mix of funk and humor, gospel and jazz, with no small points of reference to Dizzy Gillespie, early doo wop, Mahalia Jackson, James Brown, and Sun Ra... The Great Pretender falls just short of Bowie's magnum opus The 5th Power, but not by much in terms of sheer modernism. It's utterly enjoyable creative jazz, worthy of a space in your collection".
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