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Phil Dawson

Versatile UK-based guitarist who combines straight-ahead, African and Brazilian, sonic experimentation and improv influences in his playing and composing.

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Justin Thurgur: Many Faces

Read "Many Faces" reviewed by Chris May


London-based trombonist Justin Thurgur is at home in several traditions. He plays contemporary English folk music with the band Bellowhead and Afrobeat with the Afrobeat Orchestra, the ensemble led by keyboard player Dele Sosimi, a childhood protégé of Fela Kuti, who has done more than any other musician to keep the Afrobeat flame alight in Britain. Thurgur is also a member of keyboard player Kishon Khan's Lokkhi Terra, who mix Bangladeshi folk music and Cuban rumba and who ...

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"Free wheeling... dazzling... mind-expanding" - Jazzwise magazine
Pharoah Sanders
saxophone, tenor
Sonny Sharrock
guitar, electric
Miles Davis
trumpet
Bill Frisell
guitar, electric
Fela Anikulapo-Kuti
composer / conductor

Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Many Faces

Funkiwala
2022

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It's Time

Funkiwala
2021

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Water Gazing

Maekon Records
2002

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