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Song Of Innocence (LP) Common s (Krush-Groove 1) was aAxelrods debut, and a 60s masterpiece. Celebrated as psychedelic, the birth of jazz fusion, the harbinger of hip hop, Song of Innocence is a hybrid that no one, not even Axelrod himself, could describe. Grounded by Wrecking Crew vets Earl Palmer and Carol Kayes funk, torn between the juxtaposition of musical elements, put at ease by Axelrods sweeping arrangements, which utilize brass and strings in a way no one in his era did. Its both violent and