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The album features Albert Ayler and Don Cherry, with whom Murray had recorded and toured during the previous year, along with two bassists, Henry Grimes and Lewis Worrell. (Sonny’s Time Now is one of the few recordings on which Ayler appears as a guest artist.) The track titled “Black Art” features Jones reading his poem of the same name, backed by the musicians. (“Black Art” is one of Baraka’s most controversial poems, and it “became a central icon of the Black Arts Movement,
