Juju Street Songs

{{Infobox album

| name = Juju Street Songs

| type = Album

| artist = Gary Bartz NTU Troop

| cover = Juju Street Songs.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1972

| recorded = October 1972
Fantasy, Berkeley, California

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Jazz

| length =

| label = Prestige
P 10057

| producer = Gary Bartz

| chronology = Gary Bartz

| prev_title = Harlem Bush Music

| prev_year = 1971

| next_title = Follow, The Medicine Man

| next_year = 1973

}}

Juju Street Songs is an album by saxophonist Gary Bartz's NTU Troop, recorded in 1972 and released on the Prestige label.[https://www.dornpub.com/SaxjPDF/BartzDiscography.pdf Gary Bartz Selected Discography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233948/https://www.dornpub.com/SaxjPDF/BartzDiscography.pdf |date=2016-03-03 }} accessed February 10, 2015

Reception

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}

|rev2 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| rev2Score = {{rating|5|5}}{{Cite book

|editor-last=Swenson

|editor-first=J.

| author-link =

| year = 1985

| title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone

| location = USA

| isbn = 0-394-72643-X

| pages = 20

}}

}}

Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars, saying, "Excellent from start to finish, this LP captures Bartz at the height of his creativity".Henderson, A., [http://www.allmusic.com/album/juju-street-songs-mw0000022073 AllMusic Review], February 10, 2015

Track listing

All compositions by Gary Bartz except as indicated

  1. "I Wanna Be Where You Are" (Arthur Ross, Leon Ware) - 10:04
  2. "Black Maybe" (Stevie Wonder) - 9:32
  3. "Bertha Baptist" (Stafford James) - 6:32
  4. "Africans Unite" - 6:28
  5. "Teheran" - 8:20

Personnel

References