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A. Spencer Barefield is a sensitive, understated guitarist despite the fact he played, for a time, with high-voltage bandleader <a href="spotify:artist:6DR6ugRdVaVi7lyqooqJov">Roscoe Mitchell</a>. The Detroit-based guitarist's acoustic riffs, licks and phrases found a home in <a href="spotify:artist:6DR6ugRdVaVi7lyqooqJov">Mitchell's</a> Sound/Space Ensembles during the '70s and '80s. Barefield has also recorded for Sound Aspects, CAC (Xenogenesis 2000) and Trans-African as a leader, working with <a href="spotify:artist:3y58dknRdBENZ8oVErWu9B">Oliver Lake</a>, Anthony Holland, <a href="spotify:artist:3epfzSHpcuy0OcJbM9rkJX">Hugh Ragin</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:6Xktfsmu8Tlg3071prbJej">Richard Davis</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:47hexMV8ZbDWZ9MSwSWD50">Andrew Cyrille</a>, the Ballade String Quartet and <a href="spotify:artist:0j1MHQOSgNFrzoJlOmOwdv">Tani Tabbal</a> among others. Barefield has also served as Director of the Creative Arts Collective, based in Detroit. ~ Ron Wynn and Michael G. Nastos, Rovi