''Choma (Burn)'' is an album by American saxophonist

Harold Land Harold de Vance Land (December 18, 1928 – July 27, 2001) was an American hard bop and post-bop tenor saxophonist. Land developed his hard bop playing with the Max Roach/ Clifford Brown band into a personal, modern style, often rivalling Cliffo ...

recorded in 1971 for the

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Reception

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awarded the album 3 stars calling it a "Solid early '70s date".Wynn, R.
Allmusic listing
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Track listing

''All compositions by Harold Land except as indicated'' # " Choma (Burn)" - 9:56 # "Our Home" (Bill Henderson) - 5:52 # "Black Caucus" - 10:03 # "Up and Down" - 10:49

Personnel

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while ...

, flute * Bobby Hutcherson -

vibraphone The vibraphone is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family. It consists of tuned metal bars and is typically played by using mallets to strike the bars. A person who plays the vibraphone is called a ''vibraphonist,'' ''vibraharpist ...

marimba The marimba () is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets. Below each bar is a resonator pipe that amplifies particular harmonics of its sound. Compared to the xylophone, the timbre ...

*Bill Henderson -

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

, electric piano *Harold Land, Jr. - piano * Reggie Johnson - bass * Ndugu Chancler, Woodrow 'Sonship' Theus - drums

References

{{Authority control 1971 albums Harold Land albums Mainstream Records albums Albums produced by Bob Shad