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Mama Africa
by Chris M. Slawecki
If you wanted to travel to--oh, let's just say--Tanzania and then from Tanzania to India, then to Puerto Rico, to England, then Spain, to Peru, then to South Africa, to personally experience their musical varieties both garden and exotic, you could do it by cashing in, with rounding, about 28,690 frequent flier miles. Or ...
Geof Bradfield: African Flowers
by Chris M. Slawecki
African Flowers germinated during reed player Geof Bradfield's 2008 performance tour of Africa, co-sponsored by the US State Department and Jazz at Lincoln Center, as part of pianist Ryan Cohan's quartet. No stranger to the music of Africa, multi-instrumentalist Bradfield (tenor and soprano sax, bass clarinet and flute) arranged singer Miriam Makeba's “Polo Mze" for Seize ...
Various Artists: Putumayo Presents: South Africa
by Jerry D'Souza
The music of South Africa is a collage of fascinating rhythms, woven from ethnic folklore and the musical heritage of the early settlers. In that mix are kwaita, kwela and mbaqanqa, as well as gospel and township jive with reggae, jazz and rap making later inroads. The spectrum is wide and the impact heady, as evidenced ...
South Africa's Skylark
Label: Nascente
Released: 2010
Track listing: CD1: The Click Song; Pata Pata; Sophiatown Blues; Inkoma Zodwa; Orlando; The Naughty Little Flea; Back Of The Moon; Unbhaqanga; Table Mountain; Hililii; Ntyilo Ntyilo; Baby Ntsoare; Live Humble; Miriam & Spokes Phata Phata; Kutheni Sithandwa; Tula Ndivile; Hush; In The Land Of The Zulus (Kwazulu); Amampondo; Kilimanjaro; Teya Teya; Thanayi (Nomalungelo); L'Enfant Et La Gazelle; Dakhla Yunik; Liwaechi. CD2: Goodbye Poverty; Quit It; For What's It's Worth; Lumumba; Magwala Ndini; Kulala; Samba; Mas Que Nada; Umquokozo; Down On The Corner; Murtala; Moolouyame; Umoya; Talking & Dialogin; Malcolm X; U Shaka; Soweto Blues; Isangoma (Witch Doctor); Meet Me At The Corner; Ask The Rising Sun.
Compilations: Doing The Right Thing
by Chris May
Double-albums of classic Congolese and South African recordings demonstrate the right and the wrong ways to go about compilations. Tabu Ley RochereauThe Voice Of Lightness Vol. 2: Congo Classics 1977-1993Sterns2010 From its inception, everything about Sterns' compilation program has been pitch-perfect. Curated by enthusiasts with deep ...
Akua Allrich: Washington Rising
by Franz A. Matzner
A native Washingtonian, vocalist Akua Allrich's music flows with a free, natural energy as engaging as her equally ingenuous personality. Although she graduated from Howard University's music department roughly a decade ago, Allrich has only recently thrown herself into forging a musical career. She originally opted not to pursue a singing career and turned instead to ...
Take Five With Akua Allrich
by AAJ Staff
Meet Akua Allrich: Jazz vocalist Akua Allrich is a musician of extraordinary talent and crowd-moving passion. For the past two years she has been electrifying audiences in and around the nation's capital with sold-out performances. With the 2010 launch of her independently produced album, A Peace of Mine, the young artist's music and concerts ...
The Autobiography of Randy Weston: African Rhythms
by Ian Patterson
The Autobiography of Randy Weston: African RhythmsRandy Weston / Willard JenkinsHardcover; 344 pagesISBN: 978-0-8223-4784-2Duke University Press2010 It's hard to think of another jazz musician who has promoted the African roots of jazz with quite the missionary zeal of pianist Randy Weston. Weston's African ...
Take Five With Kali. Z. Fasteau
by AAJ Staff
Meet Kali. Z. Fasteau: Kali. Z. Fasteau is from a musical family, playing piano, cello, flute, and voice since early childhood in Paris and New York. Her piano teacher, for eight years, was Olga Heifetz. She started improvising at age 14. She received post-grad degrees studying the music of Asia, Africa, 20th Century ...
Khaira Arby's New Album and North American Tour
Desert Defiance and Womanly Power: Malian Diva Khaira Arby Invokes the Mystery, History, and Heart of Timbuktu For women, singing can be the road to personal power. When their voice is as strong as Malian vocalist Khaira Arby's, that power can move mountains, change minds, and win battles. Arby's rich, potent sound aims to do just ...
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