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ARTHUR BLYTHE: “Lenox Avenue Breakdown” (Columbia)::I prefer this to, say, Blythe’s more conventionally “free” Bush Baby (on Adelphi) because—thanks to Jack DeJohnette, Guillermo Franco, and the lilt of Blythe’s theme vamps—its passion for popular rhythms enables it to say something about them.

October 1, 1979
Robert Christgau

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