Jazz Articles about Jay Lou

Jay Lou: Spellings

by Fred Edmonds
May 25, 2004

Spellings, the Afro-jazz renewal.

Jay Lou's opus is a ride in the heart of good music, the kind we expect from a contemporary African artist: mature, smooth, harmonious and delicately mixed. This album is original in that it uses a guitar lead on African rhythms, which is seldom the case. The guitar, moving easily from a binary rhythm to a highly complicated 6/8 beat, surprises us, while the player does not lose himself in long and complex ...