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Reimagining Africa: From Popular Swing to the Jazz Avant-Garde

1. Art Ensemble of Chicago-"Ancient Future" (Art Ensemble of Chicago vol.1)
2. Jackie McLean- "Appointment in Ghana" (Jackie's Bag)
3. Art Blakely- "Dinga" (Holiday for Skins)
4. Thomas J. Marshall- "Arwhoolie (Cornfied Hollar)"
5. Jason Moran- "RAIN" (Artist in Residence)
6. Art Ensemble of Chicago-"Promenade Cote Bamako II"
7. Duke Ellington- "Jungle Blues" (Jungle Blues Volume 8)
8. Duke Ellington- "Jungle Nights in Harlem" (Best of...)
9. Louie Armstrong- "Shine" (The Essential Louis Armstrong)
10. Billie Holiday- "Strange Fruit" (Ken Burnz Jazz)
11. Duke Ellington- "Come Sunday" (Black, Brown and Beige)
12. Charlie Parker- "Ko Ko" (Ken Burns Jazz)
13. Charlie Parker- "Salt Peanuts" (Jazz at Massey Hall)
14. Dizzy Gillepse- "Manteca" (Ken Burns Jazz)
15. Charles Mingus- "Freedom" (Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus)
16. Charles Mingus- "Original Fables of Faubus" (Charles Mingus Presents...)
17. Art Blakely- "Feast" (Holiday for Skins)
18. Max Roach- "Triptych-Prayer/Protest/Peace" (We Insist! Freedom Now Suite)
19. Archie Shepp- "Malcolm, Malcolm - Semper" (Fire Music)
20. John Coltrane Quartet- "Nature Boy" (The New Wave in Jazz)
21.Art Ensemble of Chicago- "Number 1"
22.Muhal Richards Abrams- "Bloodline" (Blu Blu Blu)
23. Art Ensemble of Chicago - "Fanfare for the Warrior" (Fanfare for the Warrior)
24.Amina Claudine Myers- "African Blues" (Salutes Bessie Smith)
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