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| | Tarika Blue - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Tarika Blue shared the Cosmic Echoes' appreciation of modal post-bop heavyweights like John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Pharoah Sanders, Charles Lloyd and Yusef Lateef--in fact, Smith and Clendeninn are both pianist/keyboardists who were influenced by Tyner's playing. |
 | | Clendeninn, a native New Yorker, formed Tarika Blue around 1973, when he was a student at Syracuse University in Upstate New York and was doing a lot of commuting to and from the Big Apple. |
 | | Tarika Blue never recorded a third album, but their recordings continued to interest people long after their breakup. |
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