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“With the benefit of hindsight it is easy to surmise why this thoroughly enjoyable album, under the leadership of drummer Pete Magadini, escaped the attention of many jazz lovers. Bones Blues was just a few years ahead of it’s time. The music is straight ahead bop. The tunes are jazz classics…”

-Cadence Magazine 1990

1977
Label – Sackville
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1. Old Devil Moon
2. Freddie Freeloader
3. Poor Butterfly
4. Solar
5. I Remember Clifford
6. What a Time We Had
7. Bones Blues
8. Freddie Freeloader Part 2

It started out as an educational project to show how polyrhythms might work in live and recorded okaying situations involving actual tunes. It was meant to accompany the book Polyrhythms for the Drumset. Well, when you have George Duke, Don Menza and Dave Young on the date things happen and when the album was finished it took off on it’s own. Now, 30 plus years alter I am making this available again.

1976
Label – IBis
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1. Doin’ Time in 4+6
2. Five for Barbara
3. The Modulator
4. Seventy Fourth Ave.
5. Samba de Rollins
6. Midnight Bolero