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Babatunde Lea: Suite Unseen: Summoner of the Ghost

by Alain Londes
An homage to ancestral spirits sets the context for Babatunde Lea's Suite Unseen: Summoner of the Ghost. The drummer/percussionist and educator has created a suite with a unique jazz flavor, complemented by additional musical textures and held together by a spiritual overtone. The stylistic nuances together generate an imaginative piece of music that is unpredictable yet ...
Levels of Consciousness

Label: Evidence Music
Released: 2004
Track listing: Thailand Stick; Use Your Hands; Levels of Consciousness; Thang (and I Love It); Plea From the Soul; Merely a Suggestion; It
Babatunde Lea and Phenomena: Levels of Consciousness

by Rex Butters
1979's Levels of Consciousness features San Francisco Bay Area percussionist Babatunde Lea’s familiar Afro-Caribbean mix shaded by the prevalent R&B phase of the time. At the center lies his sunny positivism and furious drumming prowess. The eclectic program includes funk, soul ballads, and jazz as played by guests Julian Priester, Eddie Henderson, and Mark Isham. Muziki’s ...
Soul Pools

Label: M.A.T. Music Theme Licensing GmbH
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Confrontation 2. Jackie and The Beanstalk 3. Isabella 4. Round the World 5.
Whoa Baba! 6. 10:55 7. Ejercito [sic.] Moreno 8. Yerba Buena 9. Outlyer 10. Soul
Pools 11. Carolyn
Babatunde Lea's Soul Pools

by Javier AQ Ortiz
Babatunde Lea will not forget 2003. Shortly after releasing Soul Pools , his fourth recording as a leader, his inspirer 'Babatunde Olatunji' passed away. Lea's beat, conversely, is livelier than ever and honoring in high spirits the induction of Olatunji into jazz's pantheon of collective memoirs. Conceptually speaking, Lea's latest recording is akin to ...
Babatunde Lea: Soul Pools

by Javier AQ Ortiz
Quick and to the Point: An energetic and refreshing Latin Jazz dousing.... Heavily traversing along Latin jazz mainstream tributaries, Soul Pools is a creditable recording, intermingling refreshed takes on various percussive modalities and rhythms with jazz inflow dynamics. Babatunde Lea gathered a strong contingent for this recording. It starts off with a ...
March Of The Jazz Guerillas
Label: Ubiquity Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: March of the Jazz Guerillas; Descarga para Ginny; Back on Track; The Creator Has a Master Plan (A Tribute to Leon Thomas); Baldwin