Julius Hemphill's "Dogon A.D." — the 15-minute piece, and the album that's named for it — was one of the startling jazz recordings of the 1970s, a rethinking of possibilities open to the avant-garde.

In 1973, producer Craig Leon went to see an exhibit of ancient art made by the Dogon people, a Malian tribe. He took what he learned and made Anthology of Interplanetary Folk, a masterpiece of early ...

Craig Leon played a key role in New York City’s music history during the ’70s and ’80s, producing the first records by Suicide, the Ramones, Blondie, and Richard Hell & the Voidoids. He also worked ...