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Afro Blue

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Label: EnigmaCom
Released: 2010
Duration: 4:33

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Article: Catching Up With

Geri Allen: Apollo's Muse

Read "Geri Allen:  Apollo's Muse" reviewed by Bob Kenselaar


Pianist/composer Geri Allen is gearing up for her role as artistic director for an especially ambitious production of the 2013 Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival at the Apollo Theater. Presented as “Geri Allen & Friends Celebrate the Great Jazz Women of the Apollo," the program will offer two shows on May 11, 2013 that explore the legacy ...

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Song of the Day

Afro Blue

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Duration: 4:41

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Afro Blue

Featuring the music of Mongo Santamaria
Duration: 9:59

"Afro Blue" composed by Mongo Santamaria. Columbia University 1986 Marty Sheller -- Musical Director Mongo Santamaria -- Congas Frank Malabe -- Bongo Ignacio Berroa -- Drums Lew Soloff -- Trumpet Bobby Porcelli -- Alto Saxophone Barry Rogers -- Trombone Andy Gonzalez -- Bass Bob Quaranta -- Piano
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Afro Blue

Label: Telarc Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Afro Blue; If I Should Lose You; You Touch My Heart; If I Were a Bell; Summertime; The Night Has a Thousand Eyes; Blue Bossa; Cariba.

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Article: Album Review

McCoy Tyner: Afro Blue

Read "Afro Blue" reviewed by John Kelman


While his days as a true innovator are long past, pianist McCoy Tyner, now approaching seventy, has continued to make fine music. In many ways, his post-1970s work has been more about stylistic breadth, contrasting sharply with the more focused modal inventions with John Coltrane in the 1960s that have made him so influential and have ...

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Afro Blue

Label: Musicmasters
Released: 1997
Track listing:

Afro Blue, Impressions, Naima, Traces of Love, Lonnie's Lament, Bessie's Blues

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Article: Album Review

The Lonnie Smith Trio: Afro Blue

Read "Afro Blue" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Veteran organist Lonnie Smith pays homage to John Coltrane on this new release, supported once again by guitarist John Abercrombie and drummer Marvin “Smitty" Smith. The title cut is a mid-tempo burner that relies heavily on the original Trane interpretation of Mongo Santamaria's classic composition. Nothing new or innovative here but honorable mention goes to the ...

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Afro Blue

Label: Venus Records (5)
Released: 1994
Track listing: Afro Blue; Impressions; Naima; Traces Of Trane (I Bring Love); Lonnie's Lament; Bessie's Blues;

Album

Afro Blue

Label: Blue Note
Released: 1993
Track listing: Afro Blue; Capoeira; Home Is Africa; Love, The Mystery Of; Tin Tin Deo; O' Tinde; The Man From Tanganyika; Appointment In Ghana; The Feast; Mr Kenyatta; Rhapsodia Del Marisillio;


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