Jazz Articles about Olivier Ker Ourio

Olivier Ker Ourio: Oversea

by Budd Kopman
April 4, 2008

That the music on the delightful and immediately ingratiating album Oversea would be termed “world music" is belied by the globe on the cover and the inside liner. It is centered on Reunion Island, which is in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar. The island is a French territory, and where chromatic harmonica player Olivier Ker Ourio grew up. Furthermore, he was born in Paris to parents whose ancestors came from Brittany, and who settled on Reunion in 1728, making ...