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Perry Morris Robinson (September 17, 1938 – December 2, 2018) was an American jazz clarinetist and composer. He was the son of composer
Perry Morris Robinson (September 17, 1938 – December 2, 2018) was an American jazz clarinetist and composer. He was the son of composer Earl Robinson
Earl Hawley Robinson (July 2, 1910 – July 20, 1991) was a composer, arranger and folk music singer-songwriter from Seattle, Washington. Robinson is remembered for his music, including the cantata "Ballad for Americans" and songs such as " Jo ...
.
Early life and education
Robinson was born and grew up in New York City. He attended the Lenox School of Jazz in Massachusetts in mid-1959.Career
Robinson served in a U.S. military band in the early-1960s. His first record, ''Funk Dumpling'' (withKenny Barron
Kenny Barron (born June 9, 1943) is an American jazz pianist, who has appeared on hundreds of recordings as leader and sideman and is considered one of the most influential mainstream jazz pianists since the bebop era.
Biography
Born in Philadel ...
, Henry Grimes
Henry Grimes (November 3, 1935 – April 15, 2020) was an American jazz double bassist and violinist.
After more than a decade of activity and performance, notably as a leading bassist in free jazz, Grimes completely disappeared from the music s ...
, and Paul Motian
Stephen Paul Motian (March 25, 1931 – November 22, 2011) was an American jazz drummer, percussionist, and composer. Motian played an important role in freeing jazz drummers from strict time-keeping duties.
He first came to prominence in the l ...
) was recorded by Savoy
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Situated on the cultural boundary between Occitania and Piedmont, the area extends from Lake Geneva in the north to the Dauphiné in the south.
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in 1962. He also appeared with Grimes on ''The Call'' in 1965, on the ESP-Disk
ESP-Disk is a New York-based record company and label founded in 1963 by lawyer Bernard Stollman.
History
Though it originally existed to release Esperanto-based music, beginning with its second release (Albert Ayler's ''Spiritual Unity''), ESP b ...
label (ESP 1026). Although the album is credited to "Henry Grimes Trio" the album liner notes, written by ESP-Disk label head Bernard Stollman
Bernard Stollman (July 19, 1929 – April 19, 2015) was an American lawyer and the founder of the ESP-Disk record label.
Biography
He was born to a Jewish family in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and grew up in Plattsburgh, upstate New York, where ...
, stated: " rimeschose Perry Robinson, a virtuoso who merits far wider recognition, to pair with, and this recording reflects both of their contributions, in equal measure. A more accurate title for the album would be Henry Grimes/Perry Robinson." Two of the album's six songs are credited to Robinson, including the title track.
From 1973, Robinson worked with Jeanne Lee
Jeanne Lee (January 29, 1939 – October 25, 2000) was an American jazz singer, poet and composer. Best known for a wide range of vocal styles she mastered, Lee collaborated with numerous distinguished composers and performers who included Gunter ...
and Gunter Hampel
Gunter Hampel (born 31 August 1937) is a German jazz vibraphonist, clarinettist, saxophonist, flautist, pianist, and composer. He became dedicated to free jazz in the 1960s, developing a record label (Birth Records) and working with Jeanne Lee, ...
's Galaxie Dream Band. He contributed to Dave Brubeck
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' s '' Two Generations of Brubeck'', and played with Burton Greene
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Biogra ...
' s Dutch klezmer
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band, Klezmokum. He was the featured clarinetist on Archie Shepp's LP ''Mama Too Tight
''Mama Too Tight'' is an album by Archie Shepp released on Impulse! Records in 1967. The album contains tracks recorded by Shepp, trumpeter Tommy Turrentine, trombonists Grachan Moncur III and Roswell Rudd, tuba player Howard Johnson, clarinetis ...
'' on the Impulse!
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label. He led his own groups in performances and on record, with albums on the Chiaroscuro, WestWind, and Timescraper labels. More recently, he worked with William Parker and Walter Perkins on ''Bob's Pink Cadillac'' and several discs on the CIMP
Creative Improvised Music Projects, usually abbreviated CIMP or C.I.M.P., is an American jazz record company and label. It is associated with ''Cadence Magazine'' and Cadence Jazz Records. The label is noted for its minimal use of electronic proc ...
label.
From 1975 until 1977, Robinson was a member of the Clarinet Contrast group, which featured German clarinet players Theo Jörgensmann
Theodor Franz Jörgensmann (born 29 September 1948) is a German jazz clarinetist.
Activities
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and Bernd Konrad. He recorded with Lou Grassi Lou may refer to:
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as a member of his PoBand since the late Nineties, and with Lou Grassi, Wayne Lopes and Luke Faust
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in The Jug Jam, an improvisational jug band. He plays in a free jazz and world music trio along with tabla player Badal Roy
Badal Roy ( bn, বাদল রায়; born Amarendra Roy Chowdhury; 16 October 1939 – 18 January 2022) was an Indian tabla player, percussionist, and recording artist known for his work in jazz, world music, and experimental music.
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and bassist Ed Schuller
Edwin Gunther Schuller (January 11, 1955) is an American jazz bassist and composer. His father is Gunther Schuller, a composer, horn player, and music professor, and his younger brother is drummer George Schuller.
Career
A native of New York Ci ...
, with whom he recorded the CD ''Raga Roni''. He played with Darius Brubeck
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and Muruga Booker
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Biography
Booker was born in Detroit, Michigan, on December 27, 1 ...
in the MBR jazz trio. Robinson also played an integral part in the formation of Cosmic Legends, an improvisational music/performance group led by composer/pianist Sylvie Degiez
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which included musicians Rashied Ali
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, Wayne Lopes, Hayes Greenfield
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, and Michael Hashim
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. In 2005 he was featured on his cousin Jeffrey Lewis
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Early life
Lewis was born in New York City and grew up on the Lower East Side. He attended State University of New York at Purchase, graduating in ...
' album ''City and Eastern Songs'' on Rough Trade Records
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, produced by Kramer. A later release was ''OrthoFunkOlogy'' in 2008 with the band Free Funk, also featuring Muruga Booker
Steven Bookvich known as Muruga Booker (born December 27, 1942) is an American drummer, composer, inventor, artist, recording artist, and an autonomous Eastern Orthodox priest.
Biography
Booker was born in Detroit, Michigan, on December 27, 1 ...
, Badal Roy
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B ...
, and Shakti Ma Booker.
His autobiography, ''Perry Robinson: The Traveler'' (co-authored by Florence F. Wetzel), was published in 2002.
Personal life
Robinson died inJersey City, New Jersey
Jersey City is the second-most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, after Newark.
"Perry Robinson Discography"
"A Fireside Chat with Perry Robinson"
— at ''All About Jazz'' posted November 13, 2003
Entry at discogs.com
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Discography
As leader
* 1962: ''Funk Dumpling'' (Savoy
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)
* 1978: ''Kundalini'' (Improvising Artists Improvising Artists Inc. known as IAI is a production company created by jazz pianist, Paul Bley
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)
* 1978: ''The Traveler'' (Chiaroscuro
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)
* 1989: ''Nightmare Island: Live at the Leverkusener Jazztage'' (West Wind
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)
* 1990: ''Call to the Stars'' (West Wind)
* 1998: ''Angelology'' (Timescraper)
* 2003: ''Still Traveling'' (WestWind)
* 2005: ''Children's Song'' (Konnex) (Recorded in 1990)
* 2005: ''The Gone Orchestra Presents: Perry Robinson and the Eternal Flame'' (Mahaffay Musical Archives)
* 2009: ''Two Voice in the Desert'' with Burton Greene (Tzadik
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)
* 2010: ''Mystic Overflow'' with Muruga Booker (Sagittarius/Qbico)
As sideman
* '' The Call'' –Henry Grimes
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After more than a decade of activity and performance, notably as a leading bassist in free jazz, Grimes completely disappeared from the music s ...
(ESP-Disk
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History
Though it originally existed to release Esperanto-based music, beginning with its second release (Albert Ayler's ''Spiritual Unity''), ESP b ...
, 1965)
* ''Mouvement'' – Patrick Favre and Perry Robinson (Bleu Regard, 1966)
* ''Mama Too Tight
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'' – Archie Shepp (Impulse!, 1966)
* ''Bunky & Jake'' – Bunky and Jake
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(Mercury
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* Mercury (mythology), a Roman god
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* Merc ...
, 1968)
* '' It Crawled into My Hand, Honest'' – The Fugs (Reprise, 1968)
* ''L.A.M.F.'' – Bunky and Jake (Kiribati Productions, 1969)
* ''Liberation Music Orchestra
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'' (1969)
* ''Jake & The Family Jewels'' – Jake & The Family Jewels (Polydor
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, 1970)
* ''Jazz Composers Orchestra: Escalator over the Hill'' – ( JCOA, November 1968 – June 1971)
* '' I'm The One'' – Annette Peacock
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Annette Peacock was writing ...
(RCA
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, 1972)
* ''Impulsively!'' – Various Artists (Impulse!
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, 1972)
* '' Numatik Swing Band'' – Roswell Rudd
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Although skilled in a variety of genres of jazz (including Dixieland, which he performed while in college), and other genres of musi ...
& Jazz Composer's Orchestra
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Its origins lay in the Jazz Composers Guild, an organization founded by Bill Dixon which grew out ...
(JCOA, 1973)
* ''Conspiracy'' – Jeanne Lee (1974)
* ''Brother, the Great Spirit Made Us All
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Reception
The album was reviewed by Scott Yanow at Allmusic who wrote that the musicia ...
'' – Dave Brubeck
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(Atlantic
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, 1974)
* ''Poum'' – Composers Collektive (Perry Robinson, John Fischer (pianist)
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, Mark Whitecage
Mark Whitecage (June 4, 1937 – March 7, 2021) was an American jazz reedist.
Career
Whitecage played in his father's family ensemble as early as age six. In the 1980s, he played with Gunter Hampel's Galaxy Dream Band, Jeanne Lee, and Saheb S ...
, Laurence Cook, Mario Pavone
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Early life
Pavone was born i ...
) (1974)
* ''Secret Sauce'' – Skyking ( Columbia, 1975)
* ''Interface'' – John Fischer (with Mark Whitecage, Perry Robinson Armen Halburian, Rick Kilburn, John Shea
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, Jay Clayton & Laurence Cook) (1975)
* ''Live at Environ'' – John Fischer (with Perry Robinson & Rick Kilburn) (1975)
* ''Environ Days'' – John Fischer (with Lester Bowie
Lester Bowie (October 11, 1941 – November 8, 1999) was an American jazz trumpet player and composer. He was a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and co-founded the Art Ensemble of Chicago.
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Born in t ...
, Perry Robinson, Charles Tyler
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, Marion Brown
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, Arthur Blythe
Arthur Murray Blythe (May 7, 1940 – March 27, 2017) was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer. He was described by critic Chris Kelsey as displaying "one of the most easily recognizable alto sax sounds in jazz, big and round, with a f ...
& Phillip Wilson
Phillip Sanford Wilson (September 8, 1941 – March 25, 1992) was an American blues and jazz drummer, a founding member of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and a member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.
Biography
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Uni ...
) (recorded 1970s, released 1991)
* ''I Wanna Play for You'' – Stanley Clarke
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(Sony
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, 1977)
* ''It Just So Happens
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'' – Ray Anderson (Enja
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The label's first release was by Mal Waldron, and early releases included European and Ja ...
, 1978)
* ''You Better Fly Away'' – Clarinet Summit Clarinet Summit was a project organized by producer Joachim-Ernst Berendt in 1979.
The 1979 concert was released on MPS Records as ''You Better Fly Away''. It features John Carter, Perry Robinson, Gianluigi Trovesi, Bernd Konrad, Theo Jörgens ...
(with John Carter, Gianluigi Trovesi
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Early life
Trovesi was born in Nembro near Bergamo in Lombardy in 1944. He studied harmony ...
, Theo Jörgensmann
Theodor Franz Jörgensmann (born 29 September 1948) is a German jazz clarinetist.
Activities
Theo Jörgensmann belongs to the second generation of European free jazz musicians. He was part of the clarinet renaissance in the jazz and improvisin ...
, Bernd Konrad, Ernst–Ludwig Petrowsky, Didier Lockwood
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, Stan Tracey
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, Eje Thelin
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Thelin led his own quintet in 1961. From 1968 to 1972, he was on the faculty of the Music Academy in Graz, Austria. For the rest of the 1970s, he led hi ...
, Kai Kanthak, Jean-François Jenny-Clark
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Together with drum ...
, Günter "Baby" Sommer, Aldo Romano
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He was born in Belluno, Italy. Romano moved to France as a child and by the 1950s he was playing guitar and drums professionally in P ...
) (1979)
* ''Mr. Playdough Man'' – Cool and the Clones, Ejaz (cassette) – 1979 – 1983
* ''Celestial Glory'' – Gunter Hampel & His Galaxie Dream Band (1981)
* ''Inscapes'' – Gunter Hampel, Birth (video)
* ''Live in Eastern Europe'' – John Fischer (1983)
* ''Licorice Factory'' – Licorice Factory (1986)
* ''Songs of the Working People'' – (Flying Fish
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, 1988)
* ''Materialized Perception'' – German Clarinet Duo (1992)
* ''Jew–azzic Park'' – Klezmokum (1994)
* ''PoGressions'' – Lou Grassi (1995)
* ''ReJew–Venation'' – Klezmokum (1998)
* ''Pushin' 30'' – Eli Yamin, (Yamin Music, 1998)
* ''The Best of Kilopop!'' – Chris Butler, (Future Fossil Music, 2000)
* '' PoZest'' – Marshall Allen
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Allen is best ...
(CIMP, 2000)
* ''New Prohibition: A Music History of Hemp'' (Various Artists) (Viper, 2001)
* ''Klezmokum: Le Dor Va Dor'' – (BVHAAST, 2001)
* ''Bob's Pink Cadillac
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'' – William Parker Clarinet Trio (Eremite
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, 2002)
* ''ComPOsed'' – Lou Grassi's PoBand/John Tchicai (2002)
* ''Buzzy Linhart Presents the Big Few'' (2003) – Buzzy Linhart
* ''Kundalini Rhapsody'' – Muruga Booker, Dr. Dennis Chernin, & Perry Robinson (2003)
* ''One Global Village'' – Global Village Ceremonial Band (Qbico, 2005)
* ''Honeysuckle Dog'' – Chris Smither (Okra–tone, 2004)
* ''Invisible Cities'' – Steve Swell/Perry Robinson 2004
* ''Rarum XV'' – Carla Bley ( ECM, 2004)
* ''Holy Ghost: Rare & Unissued Recordings (1962–70)'' (Revenant
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, 2004)
* ''Children Song'' – Children Song (Konnex, 2005)
* ''Free Funk'' (Qbico, 2005)
* ''Carnival Skin'' – Perry Robinson, Peter Evans, Bruce Eisenbeil, Hilliard Greene, Klaus Kugel ( Nemu, 2005)
* ''Impulse Story'' – Archie Shepp (Impulse!, 2006)
* ''Still Travelling'' – (West Wind
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Mythology and Literature
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In Greek mythology, ...
, 2006)
* ''First Blues'' – Allen Ginsberg – (Water, 2006)
* ''Muruga & The Global Village Ceremonial Band'' (Qbico, 2005)
* ''House That Trane Built: Story of Impulse Records'' – Various Artists (Impulse!, 2006)
* ''The Soul in the Mist'' – Andrea Centazzo
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Music career
Centazzo was born in Udine, Italy. In the 1970s he played percussion in avant-garde jazz with John Zorn, St ...
, Perry Robinson & Nobu Stowe ( Ictus, 2007)
* ''Hommage an Klaus Kinski'' – Nobu Stowe–Lee Pembleton Project (Soul Note
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Black S ...
, 2007)
* '' A Long Story'' – Anat Fort
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Fort studied music at William Paterson Univers ...
(ECM, 2007)
* ''Ancestors, Mindreles, Nagila Monsters'' – Klez–Edge (Tzadik, 2008)
* ''OrthoFunkOlogy'' – Free Funk (Musart, 2008)
* ''Three Neighbours'' – (Gerald Achee
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Gerald Achee was born in Saint James,, St. James ...
, Perry Robinson and Joel Chassan, 2009)
* '' Trails of Tears'' – Jacques Coursil
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Early life
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(Sunnyside, 2010)
* ''Live at Sage Court Studio'' – Muruga-Robinson Ensemble (Musart, 2014)
* ''Fathership – Mothership World Connection'' – Muruga and the Cosmic Hoedown Band meet George Clinton and P-Funk All-Stars (Musart, 2015)
* ''@ The Wormhole Cafe'' – Wormhole Cafe (Musart, 2016)
* ''Essence'' – Perry Robinson & Muruga Booker (Musart, 2016)
* ''Night Shift'' — Rick Jacobi (Musart, 2017)
* ''Clarinet Summit'' – Theo Jörgensmann
Theodor Franz Jörgensmann (born 29 September 1948) is a German jazz clarinetist.
Activities
Theo Jörgensmann belongs to the second generation of European free jazz musicians. He was part of the clarinet renaissance in the jazz and improvisin ...
, Gianluigi Trovesi
Gianluigi Trovesi (born 1944) is an Italian jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. He has won various Italian jazz awards. He also teaches in Italy.
Early life
Trovesi was born in Nembro near Bergamo in Lombardy in 1944. He studied harmony ...
, Bernd Konrad, Annette Maye, Sebastian Gramss, Albrecht Maurer and Günter Sommer
Günter "Baby" Sommer (born 25 August 1943) is a German jazz drummer.
Career
Sommer was born in Dresden on 25 August 1943. His first instrument was the trumpet, which he studied at school. He started playing the drums aged 15 or 16. He studie ...
(Jazzwerkstatt, 2017).
References
External links
"Perry Robinson Discography"
"A Fireside Chat with Perry Robinson"
— at ''All About Jazz'' posted November 13, 2003
Entry at discogs.com
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