Hip Ensemble is Roy Haynes’s fusion band that was around for a couple of years around 1970. Or is it just the title of the one record under Roy’s name? I don’t know, man. Anyone born before the 1990s is accustomed to a measure of uncertainty in life. Whatever: here are a few new bootleg tracks (courtesy of Fabio Baglioni) by this great band, plus part of the albums Hip Ensemble and Senyah, which had (mostly) the same personnel:
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