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Cheikh Lo

Dave Sharp: Worlds

by Chris M. Slawecki
May 25, 2014

Detroit-based bassist Dave Sharp and the Secret 7 ensemble he leads have found acclaim for their expansive grasp of world music, including and especially jazz: Sharp has toured jazz clubs throughout Japan and studied jazz theory and music at the New College of California with bassist Herbie Lewis, who nailed down rock-solid rhythmic bottoms for soul-jazz ...

Worlds Apart, Whirled Together

by Chris M. Slawecki
May 20, 2014

BossaCucaNova Our Kind of Bossa Six Degrees 2014 Our Kind of Bossa celebrates fifteen fun years of BossaCucaNova, one of Brazil's most adventurous contemporary ensembles (and was also timed to coincide with Brazil hosting the 2014 soccer World Cup). These eleven tracks fuse the electro-bossa nova for which the group ...

Cape Town Jazz Festival 2013

by Dan Bilawsky
April 15, 2013

Cape Town Jazz Festival 2013Cape Town, South AfricaApril 5-6, 2013Music has the power to transport those on the receiving end to another place, but the terms of travel are usually figurative in nature. For four North American journalists, however, the figurative took fantastic form with an offer to visit Cape Town, soak in ...

Lamp Fall

By Cheikh Lo

Label: World Circuit
Released: 2006
Track listing: Sou; Lamp Fall; Xale; Kelle Magni; Senegal-BR/Sil; Sante Yalla; Toogayu M'Bedd; N'Galula; Sama Kaani Xeen; Babma Mo Woor; Fattaliku Demb; Kelle Magni; Zikroulah.

Cheikh Lo: Lamp Fall

by Nenad Georgievski
April 17, 2006

Lamp Fall redefines the meaning of fusion as Cheikh Lo breathes new life into the genre, seamlesly mixing and blending various influences and sounds from around the globe to create his own style. This approach makes his music a perfect fit for so-called world music, since he has spiritually and sonically fused many kinds of global ...