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Label: Fiver House Records
Released: 2016
Duration: 05:18

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Richard Bona: Heritage

Read "Heritage" reviewed by James Nadal


The roots of Afro-Cuban music can be traced to its primordial source in the West African Mandika Empire (Mali) of the 15th century. Heritage is a collaboration of Cameroonian bassist Richard Bona with the Mandekan Cubano ensemble in a musical exploration of two cultures with the common bond of Africa as a point of origin and ...

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Heritage

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: Ife; Ouidah; Tribal Dance; Hope; Freedom Dance; Chardon; Farafina; African Ship; Goree; Bayyinah.

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Heritage

Label: Stork Music Productions
Released: 2012
Track listing: Mas Que Nada; Django; If You Never Come To Me; Voce e Eu; Our Love Is Here to Stay; Little White Lies; Jive At Five; The Song Is You; A Pele Do Marfin Skin of Ivory; Where Are You; Brazil; I Can't Get Started; Calcutta.

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Lionel Loueke: Heritage

Read "Heritage" reviewed by Ernest Barteldes


On Heritage, Benin-born Lionel Loueke takes a more electric approach than on previous releases, which mostly featured his acoustic, nylon-string guitar. This change is immediately felt on the opening “Ifê," beginning with the muted notes of an acoustic steel-stringed guitar whose sound resembles a kalimba (thumb piano). Loueke is backed solely by his trio (rounded out ...

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Lionel Loueke: Heritage

Read "Heritage" reviewed by Franz A. Matzner


Lionel Loueke's Heritage deftly intertwines modern jazz constructs with traditional African themes in a highly personal exploration of these two cultural streams which define Loueke's upbringing and musical identity. The result is a gracious, elevating and welcoming sound that still challenges preconceived notions.Thoughtfully composed, the album's ten pieces together present an intimate--sometimes philosophical--complex musical ...

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Lionel Loueke: Heritage

Read "Heritage" reviewed by Mark F. Turner


Lionel Loueke's two previous Blue Note recordings--Karibu (2008) and Mwaliko (2010)--displayed his usual virtuosity as a guitarist/vocalist who links his West African Beninese musical roots with a modernist jazz outlook that is uniquely his own. On Heritage, he's assembled new musicians and hooks up with innovative pianist Robert Glasper, who coproduced and performs on the album. ...

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Kenny Poole: Heritage

Read "Heritage" reviewed by Jack Huntley


Kenny Poole was a guitarist's guitarist. He never sought the limelight that others with his talents achieved, but his much admired jazz chops attracted musicians in the know. He performed with such luminaries as Jack McDuff, Tal Farlow, Joe Pass, Howard Alden and Jack Wilkins. Sadly, Poole lost his fight with cancer in 2006. But with ...

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Heritage

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2011

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Heritage

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Inside You; Acuphuncture; Time and Space; Nostalgia; Kudu; Dr.Mganga; Dark Shadow.


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