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LeRoi Jones: Black Music (MacGibbon and Kee 36 shillings).

Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 8 November 1969

IN HIS writings for Downbeat and Kulchur magazines, LeRoi Jones — poet, playwright, essayist, critic and revolutionary — provided many of the first signposts to the post-Ornette New Wave.

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