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Vision Festival 2009: Day 2
by John Sharpe
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 All-Star Collective / Bill Cole's Untempered Ensemble / Sun Ra Arkestra14th Annual Vision Festival Abrons Arts Center New York, New York June 10, 2009 Chapter Index All-Star Collective Bill ...
J.D. Allen Trio: Shine
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The unfettered joy of listening to J.D. Allen's Shine comes from being reunited with the blues and spiritualism of modern Afro-American saxophone music. This kind of feeling and emotion all but died with John Coltrane. Arguably only a handful of players such as Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp and, perhaps, Dewey Redman kept those flames alive. And ...
Circle of Drums
Label: Chesky Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Stepping (Isise); Incantations; Dawn (Idaji); Embracement; Ascension (Igoke); Cosmic
Rhythmic Vibrations.
Babatunde Olatunji: Circle of Drums
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Percussionist Babatunde Olatunji was born in a Yoruba-speaking fishing village in Nigeria in 1927 and succumbed to diabetes in Salinas, California in 2003. Why might Circle of Drums, a previously-unreleased 1993 recording, be of interest? In part because, if the prize for First World Music Record can be definitively awarded (and it probably cannot) a serious ...
Drums of Passion
Label: Legacy Recordings
Released: 2003
Track listing: Akiwowo (Ah-Key-Woh-Woh) (Chant to the Trainman);
Oya (Aw-Yah) (Primitive Fire) (Cult Rhythm);
Odun de! Odun De! (Aw Dun Day! Aw Dun Day!) (Happy New Year);
Gin-Go-Lo-Ba (Jin-Go-Low-Bah) (Drums of Passion);
Kiyakiya (Kay-Ya-Key-Ya) (Why Do You Run Away?);
Baba Jinde (Baba-Gee-Un-Day) (Flirtation Dance).
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