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1967

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The Colors reintroduced Eritrean bass player Ali Mahmood to the band who showed them new musical scales which they incorporated into the many jazz gigs they were doing around New York to fund their next album. They also reintroduced the Shofars as their full time horn section and wrote tunes such as 'Medawaasi', 'Afrodrive' and 'Ethiopool'. They continued to play weddings for various communities, primarily playing at Jewish weddings, for which they wrote some original instrumental klezmer music. Drummer Woody Oaks wrote ‘Enio's Wedding Dance’ for a friend's wedding. He wrote some odd-time bars into the tune which left the audience at Enio’s wedding unable to dance, though Woody alleged it was written this way to make Sarah, his cousin, feel better about having no sense of rhythm. At the same wedding, Alex got extremely drunk and started claiming that there was pork in the dumpling soup. They were never given another gig within the Jewish community again.

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