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Don Cherry in Copenhagen, 1965
Throughout his career, Don Cherry favored the stubby but warm pocket cornet and was most closely identified with the free jazz and avant-garde jazz movements. In the late 1950s, he recorded with Ornette Coleman (Something Else!!!, Tomorrow Is the Question!, The Shape of Jazz to Come, Change of the Century, This Is Our Music), Paul Bley ...
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Tai Adelaja
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Tai "TMon" Adelaja is a percussionist, music technologist and sound designer living in the coastal city of Lagos in Nigeria. A trained journalist, Tai also moonlights as an arts critic and entertainment writer. A global music afficionado, he likes to write about music, musical instruments and music technology.
Tai is a trained master of the djundjun (an African bass drum), a competent accompanist on djembe, and a passionate scholar and champion of themes and concepts in global percussionism. Tai studied African drum and dance concepts with the late great Babatunde Olatunji in 1992 and completed a 3-year cultural residency program with master drummer Aidoo Mamadi Holmes' and Wo’se African Dance Theater in Washington DC in 2000.
Orlando Julius and The Heliocentrics: Jayeide Afro
by Enrico Bettinello
Dimmi con chi suoni e ti dirò chi sei. Gli inglesi Heliocentrics guidati da Malcolm Catto, sotto gli auspici dei padri Sun Ra e James Brown, hanno nel DNA la sensibilità per aprirsi alle migliori collaborazioni. Lo hanno fatto con Lloyd Miller (etnomusicologo e musicista di visionaria esperienza), con Mulatu Astatke (non serve vi ...
Bongos Ikwue and Double X: Wulu Wulu
by James Nadal
Nigeria has been a wellspring of vital African music for some time now, from ethnic folk music with its call and response, to palm-wine, juju, Afrobeat, and the horn and guitar driven sounds of highlife. This polyrhythmic music has also achieved international fame due to popular artists as Fela Kuti and King Sunny Ade. Though these ...