Of Randy Weston’s Uhuru Afrika, Brent Burton writes, “The music is not only harder and more percussive than anything Weston had done before, it also beat John Coltrane to large-ensemble Afrocentrism by a good six months” (“Modern Obscurity,” 6/27). Presumably, Burton is alluding to the fact that Weston’s recording was made in November 1960 whereas […]
