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Kid Creole

A Jazz Lover's guide to Popular Music

by Ludovico Granvassu
October 9, 2018

This week we explore the cross pollination between jazz and popular music genres, like pop, rock, soul, funk and ska. Archie Shepp playing with Whitney Houston? The jazz beginnings of Björk, Serge Gainsbourg, Sacha Distel? Ornette Coleman's and Sonny Rollins' adventures in rock-land? Lester Bowie playing ska? How Miles Davis' “So What" inspired Pee ...

Going Places: The August Darnell Years 1976-1983

By Kid Creole

Label: Dodo Music
Released: 2008
Track listing: 01. Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band - Sunshower; 02. Don Armando's Second Avenue Rhumba Band - Goin' to a Showdown; 03. Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Going Places (Zemix Version); 04. Cristina - Is That All There Is; 05. Gichy Dan's Beachwood No. 9 - On a Day Like Today; 06. Machine - There But for the Grace of God Go I (12" Version); 07. Don Armando's Second Avenue Rhumba Band - I'm An Indian Too (12" Version); 08. Aural Exciters - Marathon Runner; 09. Coati Mundi - Pharaoh (Can't Take It to the Grave); 10. Aural Exciters - Emile (Night Rate); 11. Kid Creole & The Coconuts - He's Not Such a Bad Guy After All (12" Version); 12. Ron Rogers - Don't Play With My Emotions; 13. Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Double On Back; 14. Aural Exciters - Paradise; 15. Kid Creole & The Coconuts - Off The Coast of Me.

Kid Creole: Going Places: The August Darnell Years 1976-1983

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 27, 2008

Devo confessare che nei famigerati anni Ottanta, periodo nel quale ho speso la mia adolescenza mosso da una curiosità musicale piuttosto difficile da riordinare a posteriori, fatta di orrende infatuazioni e inevitabili manicheismi, Kid Creole non è che fosse tra i miei artisti preferiti. Sarà stata forse colpa di quel look così “tamarro", o dell'invidia nei ...