Idi Amin and alluded to in the film "The Last King of Scotland" in 2006, a movie which earned actor Forest Whitaker an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Amin. During Amin's time in power, popular media outside of Uganda often portrayed him as an essentially comic and eccentric figure. In a 1977 assessment typical of the time, a "Time" magazine article described him as a "killer and clown, big-hearted buffoon and strutting martinet". The comedy-variety series "Saturday Night Live" aired four Amin sketches between 1976 and 1979, including one in which he was an ill-behaved houseguest in exile,
Kabell Years: 1971–1979 selected this album as part of its suggested Core Collection. All compositions by Wadada Leo Smith except where noted. Disc one Disc two Disc three Disc Four Notes Kabell Years: 1971–1979 Kabell Years: 1971-1979 is a four-CD box set released on Tzadik Records compiling American jazz trumpeter/composer/inmproviser Wadada Leo Smith's earliest albums which were originally released on his own, privately pressed label Kabell along with additional previously unissued material from the same era. The set includes the previously released material from "Creative Music - 1", "Reflectativity", "Song of Humanity" and "". In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek notes that