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Tuskegee Experiments

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Released
  
1992

Genre
  
Jazz

Label
  
Elektra/Nonesuch

Recorded
  
1990–1991

Length
  
61:19

Producer
  
Arthur Moorhead

Tuskegee Experiments is the first album as leader by jazz clarinettist Don Byron. Its title refers to the Tuskegee syphilis experiment — the notorious medical experiment conducted around Tuskegee, Alabama, lasting from 1932 to 1972, in which 400 subjects, mainly poor, black sharecroppers, were used in an investigation of the effects of syphilis without their knowledge or consent. This album brought Byron almost immediate fame.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Waltz for Ellen" (Byron) –3:05
  2. "Tuskegee Strutter's Ball" (Byron) –8:08
  3. "In Memoriam: Uncle Dan" (Byron) –5:20
  4. "Next Love" (Byron) –9:50
  5. "Tears" (Byron) –8:12
  6. "Main Stem" (Ellington) –7:26
  7. "Diego Rivera" (Byron) –9:23
  8. "Tuskegee Experiment" (Byron) –6:27
  9. "Auf einer Burg" (Schumann) –3:28

Personnel

  • Don Byron — clarinet, bass clarinet
  • Greta Buck — violin
  • Bill Frisell — guitar
  • Joe Berkovitz — piano
  • Edsel Gomez — piano
  • Richie Schwarz — marimba
  • Kenny Davis — bass
  • Lonnie Plaxico — bass
  • Reggie Workman — bass
  • Pheeroan akLaff — drums
  • Ralph Peterson — drums

    • References

    Tuskegee Experiments Wikipedia
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