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David Murray and the Gwo-Ka Masters

David Murray and the Gwo-Ka Masters: Gwotet

by Rex Butters
November 6, 2004

A passionate prolific player with lots to say and the vocabulary to preach, David Murray finds an aggregation capable of burning through the music with him in the Gwo-Ka Masters. Anchored by the ambi-rhythmic drummer Hamid Drake and Gwo-Ka drummer Klod Klavue, this thirteen piece ensemble rolls like an 18 wheeler downhill. Using hyper funk rhythms ...

Yonn-D

By David Murray and the Gwo-Ka Masters

Label: Justin Time Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Twa Jou San Manj

David Murray and the Gwo-Ka Masters: Yonn-D

by AAJ Staff
May 9, 2002

The music of the African diaspora has recently experienced a resurgence within jazz circles. It's true that the '60s were a time of African renaissance within out jazz nuclei in Chicago and New York, but the recent explosion of recordings featuring American jazz musicians with masters from Cuba, Brazil, and West Africa stands as tribute and ...