The Great Pretender (Lester Bowie album)

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The Great Pretender is the debut album by American jazz trumpeter Lester Bowie, recorded in June 1981 and released on ECM later that year.

Reception

The AllMusic review by Michael G. Nastos stated: "The Great Pretender is a perfect title for this effort, a mix of funk and humor, gospel and jazz, with no small points of reference to Dizzy Gillespie, early doo wop, Mahalia Jackson, James Brown, and Sun Ra... The Great Pretender falls just short of Bowie's magnum opus The 5th Power, but not by much in terms of sheer modernism. It's utterly enjoyable creative jazz, worthy of a space in your collection."

Track listing

Personnel

Additional musicians ("The Great Pretender")

Technical personnel

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