Juju Street Songs

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Juju Street Songs
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Studio album by
Gary Bartz NTU Troop
Released1972
RecordedOctober 1972
Fantasy, Berkeley, California
Genre Jazz
Label Prestige
P 10057
Producer Gary Bartz
Gary Bartz chronology
Harlem Bush Music
(1971)
Juju Street Songs
(1972)
Follow, The Medicine Man
(1973)

Juju Street Songs is an album by saxophonist Gary Bartz's NTU Troop, recorded in 1972 and released on the Prestige label. [1]

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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars, saying, "Excellent from start to finish, this LP captures Bartz at the height of his creativity". [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Gary Bartz except as indicated

  1. "I Wanna Be Where You Are" (Arthur Ross, Leon Ware) - 10:04
  2. "Black Maybe" (Stevie Wonder) - 9:32
  3. "Bertha Baptist" (Stafford James) - 6:32
  4. "Africans Unite" - 6:28
  5. "Teheran" - 8:20

Personnel

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References

  1. Gary Bartz Selected Discography Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine accessed February 10, 2015
  2. 1 2 Henderson, A., AllMusic Review, February 10, 2015
  3. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 20. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.