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ARTICLE: LIVE REVIEW December 29, 2018

Charles Lloyd & the Marvels with Lucinda Williams at Zellerbach Hall

Charles Lloyd & the Marvels with Lucinda Williams Zellerbach Hall Berkeley, CA December 6, 2018 It isn't often that a pedal steel guitar is found in a jazz ensemble. And it is even less frequent that a country music singer-songwriter joins one on vocals. But this iconoclastic collaboration had its genesis ...

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Drums of Passion

By OLATUNJI

Label: Legacy Recordings
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Akiwowo (Ah-Key-Woh-Woh) (Chant to the Trainman) 2. Oya (Aw-Yah) (Primitive Fire) (Cult Rhythm) 3. Odun de! Odun De! (Aw Dun Day! Aw Dun Day!) (Happy New Year) 4. Gin-Go-Lo-Ba (Jin-Go-Low-Bah) (Drums of Passion) 5. Kiyakiya (Kay-Ya-Key-Ya) (Why Do You Run Away?) 6. Baba Jinde (Baba-Gee-Un-Day) (Flirtation Dance)

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW May 10, 2003

Olatunji: Drums of Passion

By MIKE PERCIACCANTE

Columbia Legacy's reissue of Drums Of Passion offers a chance for new listeners to fully appreciate the groundbreaking 1959 debut CD of the late African drummer Michael Babatunde Olatunji. Hailed as a genius by none other than jazz greats John Coltrane, Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Dizzy Gillespie and referenced by Bob Dylan on his Freewheeling ...

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