The Great Pretender (Lester Bowie album)

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The Great Pretender
The Great Pretender cover
Studio album by Lester Bowie
Released 1981
Recorded June 1981
Genre Jazz
Length 42:44
Label ECM
Producer Manfred Eicher
Lester Bowie chronology
The Fifth Power
(1978)		 The Great Pretender
(1981)		 All the Magic
(1982)

The Great Pretender is an album by Lester Bowie recorded for ECM in 1981.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "The Great Pretender" (Buck Ram) - 16:22
  2. "It's Howdy Doody Time" (Edward Kean) - 2:08
  3. "When the Doom (Moon) Comes Over the Mountain" (Harry M. Woods/Howard E. Johnson; Arr:Lester Bowie) - 3:39
  4. "Rios Negroes" (Bowie) - 7:17
  5. "Rose Drop" (Bowie) - 7:28
  6. "Oh, How the Ghost Sings" (Bowie/Donald Smith/Fred Williams/Philip Wilson/Manfred Eicher/Martin Wieland) 5:50

[edit] Personnel