Hamiet Bluiett/Kahil El'Zabar

Fri., Nov. 20, 8 p.m., $12, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 251 S. 18th St., arsnovaworkshop.com.

by Shaun Brady

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Published: Nov 18, 2009

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It's a meeting of two of the most influential regional collectives in free jazz history — both born of the relatively barren Midwest — when these two join forces. Hamiet Bluiett, one of the few icons of the baritone sax, co-founded the Black Artists' Group in St. Louis in the '60s, out of which sprang the World Saxophone Quartet (also one of Bluiett's babies) and a number of prominent artists. Up in Chicago, the AACM was already well-established when percussion master Kahil El'Zabar, a decade Bluiett's junior, joined in the early '70s, but he's since become one of the major representatives of the group's blend of avant-jazz and African influences.

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