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The Amram/Barrow Quartet were among the earliest bands to find an effective way to combine jazz and international improvisatory strains. Amram, a wildly eclectic artist who played brass, reed and an array of non-western instruments, worked with tenor saxophonist
George Barrow. Though their late '50s sessions for Decca are mainly standard hard bop, such songs as "Lobo nocho" and "Phipps Quipps" are an indication of the direction Amram would later take. Amram moved away from conventional jazz and into an assortment of world styles, but maintained his association with
Barrow on into the '80s. ~ Ron Wynn