The African Game

{{Infobox album

| name = The African Game

| type = Live album

| artist = George Russell & The Living Time Orchestra

| cover = The African Game.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1984

| recorded = June 18, 1983

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| studio =

| genre = Jazz

| length = 45:20

| label = Blue Note

| producer = George Russell

| chronology = George Russell

| prev_title = Live in an American Time Spiral

| prev_year = 1983

| next_title = So What

| next_year = 1987

}}

{{Album ratings

|rev1 = Allmusic

|rev1score = {{rating|3|5}}[http://www.allmusic.com/album/r146740 Allmusic Review]

}}

The African Game is a live album by George Russell released on the Blue Note label in 1984, featuring performances by Russell with his Living Time Orchestra recorded in 1983 in Boston.[http://sudo.3.pro.tok2.com/Quest/cards/G/GeorgeRussell/AfricanGame_x.html George Russell discography] accessed 12 November 2009. The Allmusic review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 3 stars and states "The African Game is a major statement, a highly eclectic, nine-part, 45-minute suite for augmented big band that attempts to depict no less than the evolution of the species from the beginning of time to the present from an African perspective. Well, yes, this theme has been taken on by many an ambitious artist in every field, but Russell's work is remarkably successful because it tries to embrace a massive world of sound in open, colorful, young-thinking terms, with degrees of timbral unity and emotion to keep the idioms from flying out of control".Ginell, R. S. [{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r146740|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic Review] accessed 12 November 2009.