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Saxophonist Byard Lancaster, an important figure in Jamal’s development, contributed much of the solo work. Later in 1972, Jamal made his leader debut with Drum Dance to the Motherland, a reverb-drenched, never-to\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e-be-replicated experiment with live sound processing. Both albums appeared on the tiny musician-run Dogtown label.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“We couldn’t get no play from nowhere. No gigs or recording sessions or anything. So I took off for Paris,” Jamal recalled in a Cadence interview with Ken Weiss. “Within a few weeks, I had a few articles and I did a record date. It didn’t make me feel good about America.” That was in 1974, while Byard Lancaster was recording the music gathered on Souffle Continu’s recent The Complete PALM Recordings, 1973-1974. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJamal’s record date delivered Give the Vibes Some. 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This box set captures their five-night stand at the Fifth Edition Festival for Other Music in Stockholm in the summer of 2022. Five nights, five tunes, five discs, each right around 45 minutes. What’s remarkable is the dialogue between tradition and free exploration, the quartet’s journeys to the outer limits of the form always grounded by recognizable swing and blues elements. 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