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Review

Common Sacred Ground

By Don Pullen

Blue Note/EMI, 1996

Get ready to embark on an unparalleled cross-cultural musical journey that weaves its way through traditional powwow and jazz.

The renowned composer pianist, Don Pullen, and the Chief Cliff Singers from Montana's Flathead Reservation, have created a dazzling work that punctuates the band-leader's life work beautifully.

Page 15

Review

Common Sacred Ground

By Don Pullen

Blue Note/EMI, 1996

Get ready to embark on an unparalleled cross-cultural musical journey that weaves its way through traditional powwow and jazz.

The renowned composer pianist, Don Pullen, and the Chief Cliff Singers from Montana's Flathead Reservation, have created a dazzling work that punctuates the band-leader's life work beautifully.

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Review

Billy Taylor

Home Town Fiddler

Sunshine Records

While this 12-song cassette has its moments, Home Town Fiddler sounds pretty much like a night of friends jamming on tunes. The best song on the tape is the raucous St. Anne's Reel. It and Big John McNeel showcase an ability to handle the two-stomp.

There are hints of oddball bluegrass on Snowflake Breakdown and splashes of Celtic and country throughout the recording. The old Bob Wills chestnut Faded Love gets an adequate though uninspired, work over as well.

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Review

Billy Taylor

Home Town Fiddler

Sunshine Records

While this 12-song cassette has its moments, Home Town Fiddler sounds pretty much like a night of friends jamming on tunes. The best song on the tape is the raucous St. Anne's Reel. It and Big John McNeel showcase an ability to handle the two-stomp.

There are hints of oddball bluegrass on Snowflake Breakdown and splashes of Celtic and country throughout the recording. The old Bob Wills chestnut Faded Love gets an adequate though uninspired, work over as well.

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Review

The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge: A Lakota Odyssey

By Joe Starita

388 pages, $32.50 (hc.)

or 2 cassettes, $27.50

Putnam, New York

The book opens in a nursing home in Colorado, in the room of Guy Dull Knife, Sr., who may, the book says, "live in three different centuries." He was born in 1899, and it is his history, and the history of his family, that author Joe Starita uses to tie this Native history together.

Page 13

Review

The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge: A Lakota Odyssey

By Joe Starita

388 pages, $32.50 (hc.)

or 2 cassettes, $27.50

Putnam, New York

The book opens in a nursing home in Colorado, in the room of Guy Dull Knife, Sr., who may, the book says, "live in three different centuries." He was born in 1899, and it is his history, and the history of his family, that author Joe Starita uses to tie this Native history together.

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The fourth annual First Americans In The Arts award presentations were held in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Feb. 24. The awards show, which began as a small event in the back of a "Denny's-style" restaurant, has become high profile in Hollywood. This year the event was staged at the chic Beverly Hilton Hotel.

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The fourth annual First Americans In The Arts award presentations were held in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Feb. 24. The awards show, which began as a small event in the back of a "Denny's-style" restaurant, has become high profile in Hollywood. This year the event was staged at the chic Beverly Hilton Hotel.

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Things have been moving swiftly at Saskatoon's Sweet Grass Records since one of their recording groups, the Stoney Park Singers, was nominated for a Juno last year in the Best Music of Aboriginal Canada category.

Known in the recording industry for consistently producing the best in traditional powwow and round dance music, Sweet Grass owners insist on high standards and a quality product in traditional music.

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Things have been moving swiftly at Saskatoon's Sweet Grass Records since one of their recording groups, the Stoney Park Singers, was nominated for a Juno last year in the Best Music of Aboriginal Canada category.

Known in the recording industry for consistently producing the best in traditional powwow and round dance music, Sweet Grass owners insist on high standards and a quality product in traditional music.