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Let's Try It Again
no label / private release
CD
$7
Restocked; reduced price. Quite scarce & mighty fine self-released CD by the late, great, & missed percussionist Cleve Pozar c.1999. From Pozar’s liner notes: “The rhythms on this CD are performed on bata, the sacred drums of Santeria, a Cuban religion that combines Yoruba beliefs from West Africa with Roman Catholicism. Let’s Try it Again combines bata rhythms of the gods - unedited - with Orisha, jazz, pop, and folk songs arranged for trombones. … Because the bata are played in a religious context and because I am using the rhythms and songs of Ocha, I went to Ifa before I began this project. Divination by Babalawo Ifa Miwa gave me permission - and told me not to stop until I was finished. This is Obatala’s CD. I have been helped by all the Orisha, but especially by Los Guerreros, Ochun, Yemaya, and San Lazaro.”

Pozar always wholeheartedly & obsessively pursued his individual, wide-ranging vision, whether it is playing be-bop, free, Latin music, bata, electronic percussion, funk, or early ragtime pieces by artists such as George Hamilton Green. This disc is another document of that sincere, free spirit. Hear Naima & Footprints.

See also this interview with Pozar regarding his classic Cleve Solo Percussion album.