Jazz Articles about Maleem Mahmoud Ghania

Maleem Mahmoud Ghania & Pharoah Sanders: The Trance Of Seven Colors

by Chris May
August 11, 2019

Producer Bill Laswell gets a bad rap in some quarters, and sometimes he deserves it. During his mid 1980s through mid 1990s purple period, Laswell tended to apply, some would say impose, a one-size-fits-all, avant-rock-and-funk formula across the board to the projects he took on. It was novel and radical and compelling and Laswell assembled a pool of first-class session musicians to deliver it. With some bands, such as his own Material, the formula worked like a dream. But in ...