His ecm debut as a leader is a fascinating and fun sonic amalgam. Lester bowie 1981 the great pretender cun cun revival. The great pretender by lester bowie on amazon music. Lester bowie the great pretender jazzwerkstatt, 2014. Lester bowie 11 october 19418 november 1999 was an american jazz trumpet player and composer. Click download file button or copy lester bowie the great pretender url which shown in textarea when you clicked file title, and paste it into your browsers address bar. Lester bowie the complete remastered recordings on black saint and soul note. Lester bowie took the trumpet and improvisational music in his own, unique direction. Download lester bowie the great pretender files tradownload.
A contradiction amongst trumpet players, lester bowie was the. Download rappamelo lester bowie african children from 187 mb, lester bowie s brass fantasy i only have eyes for you. The title cut on lester bowie s the great pretender comes of course from the platters, the influential vocal group whose other hits, only you and the magic touch, catapulted the groups success through the rock n roll charts of the 1950s. What are you going to do when you are not saving the world. The great pretender lester bowie release info allmusic. This seeming dichotomy purports a universally appealing sound close to selling out, but speaks more to the whimsy and farcical elements bowie sees in the hypocrisy of life. Born in frederick, maryland, bowie grew up in st louis, missouri.
Its utterly enjoyable creative jazz, worthy of a space in your collection. If you are a fan of free music, just download the second cd from the. Now, jazzwerkstatt releases a double cd with the same title and with an almost similar concept. Cun cun revival lester bowie 1981 the great pretender. Listen free to lester bowie the great pretender the great pretender, its howdy doody. Lester bowie the great pretender itunes download amazon download this amusing tv ad promoting specsavers kids glasses offer shows a dad. Lester bowie the great pretender ecm touchstones amazon.
If file is multipart dont forget to check all parts before downloading. He was a member of the aacm, and cofounded the art ensemble of chicago. At the age of five he started studying the trumpet with his father, a professional musician. Listen to the great pretender from lester bowies the great pretender for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. The cover to lester bowies 1981 album the great pretender.
The great pretender falls just short of bowie s magnum opus the 5th power, but not by much in terms of sheer modernism. Bowie s investment in popular musics connections to jazz set him a world apart. The great pretender is a perfect title for this effort, a mix of funk and humor, gospel and. How to download lester bowie the great pretender files to my device. The great pretender is the first album by lester bowie recorded for ecm and released in 1981. The first cd is fully in the same vein as the ecm album, with a band consisting of fontella.
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