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Baaba Maal

Born: June 13, 1953

It was almost inevitable that Baaba Maal would one day call an album The Traveller because for the Senegalese veteran travel and music are inextricable. The singer and guitarist belongs to the semi-nomadic Fulani people. He first left his homeland of Fouta, in the river valley region of northern Senegal, almost 40 years ago, to perform music hundreds of miles away as a teenage boy scout and he has been a wanderer ever since. “It’s part of my culture,” he says. “The songs travel from village to village, from country to country. It’s something natural to my tribe and this part of Africa.” The Traveller, which features the British poet Lemn Sissay and members of The Very Best and Mumford and Sons, is both a new direction and a powerful summary of his life’s work: a rich and moving celebration of seeing new places, meeting new people and making new music together

Baaba Maal at Joe's Pub in New York City

by Ziga Koritnik
February 11, 2022

Wilson Huggett Project: Field of Hope

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
November 21, 2011

Five years after Max Roach Park (Jazz Direct, 2006), UK/South African bassist Dan Wilson and drummer Mark Huggett return with a multinational, multidimensional offering that continues and improves upon the strong suits of their earlier disc.On the one hand, there is a focus on establishing moods, often undergirded by deep and pleasing grooves; this ...

WOMAD: Malmesbury, England, July 29-31, 2011

by Martin Longley
September 2, 2011

WOMAD Charlton Park Malmesbury, England July 29-31, 2011 The World Of Music, Arts & Dance, which will celebrate it's 30th anniversary in 2012, is almost certainly the biggest, best and longest-established international festival of global sounds. With its roots in England, the organization has steadily cultivated ...

Talking Drum Master, Ghana School Builder, Mohammed Alidu and the Bizung Family

August 4, 2010

Mohammed Alidu has ways of making drums talk. Centuries-old ways passed down through dozens of generations of Bizungs, the hereditary talking drum masters of Northern Ghana. These ways turn drum strokes into speech, transmit instructive proverbs and ancient histories, and spark new exuberantly danceable songs. Alidu takes the talking drums of his past into new territory ...

Take Five With Daniel Ian Smith

by AAJ Staff
June 25, 2010

Meet Daniel Ian Smith: Daniel Ian Smith is a saxophonist/flutist and an Associate Professor at the esteemed Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, where he has taught for the past fifteen years. Daniel has had the privilege to perform in Japan, England, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Canada, and throughout the United States in major jazz festivals ...

Missing You (Mi Yeewnii)

By Baaba Maal

Label: Palm Pictures
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. Yoolelle Maman (4:18) 2. Miyaabele (3:52) 3. Fa Laay Fanaan (4:50) 4. Leydi Ma (3:47) 5. Jamma Jenngii (4:30) 6. Fanta (4:20) 7. Laare Yoo (4:42) 8. Senegaale Ngummee (5:00) 9. Mamadi (4:56) 10. Kowoni Maayo (Mi Yeewnii) (5:49) 11. Allah Addu Jam (7:46)

Baaba Maal: Missing You (Mi Yeewnii)

by AAJ Staff
April 3, 2004

Senegalese singer Baaba Maal has a voice that projects such intensity that it almost doesn't matter what musical setting he chooses, but smaller groups and acoustic instruments do him the most justice. The amazing thing about Missing you (Mi Yeewnii), recorded in the Afro-pop musician's literal backyard, is that it really does sound like a performance ...

Missing You (Mi Yeewnii)

By Baaba Maal

Label: Palm Pictures
Released: 2001