- jazz
- 44 min
- 6 tracks
- ECM Records
The Great Pretender is the eighth album by American jazz trumpeter Lester Bowie as leader, recorded in June 1981 and released on ECM later that year.
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Spare, grave, cool and character-led.
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
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Tracks
- 1The Great Pretender16:60
- 2It’s Howdy Doody Time2:12
- 3When the Doom (Moon) Comes Over the Mountain: a) Doom? / b) When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain3:41
- 4Rios Negroes7:22
- 5Rose Drop7:29
- 6Oh, How the Ghost Sings5:54
6 tracks, 44 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Lester Bowie
- Label
- ECM Records
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
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