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Toumani Diabate
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Toumani Diabate is acknowledged to be the foremost kora player in the world. The kora is a 21-string harp-lute instrument that has been played in Africa for centuries. It was the signature of the medieval Mandingo Empire, which populated West Africa from the 13th to the 16th centuries.
Diabate has brought the kora to pop music, African orchestras, flamenco, jazz, and the blues. But his latest album, “The Mande Variations,” features the instrument solo.
Toumani Diabate comes from a long line of kora-playing griots.
Sona Jobarteh at the Herbst Theater
by Harry S. Pariser
Sona Jobarteh Herbst Theater 2025 SFJAZZ Season San Francisco, CAApril 4, 2025 Sona Jobarteh is quite a busy woman. In addition to leading her own band and creating her own albums, she frequently makes guest appearances on recordings, speaks as an activist before the United Nations, lectures at universities, and ...
Remembering Toumani Diabaté: MALIcool
by Ian Patterson
The passing of Malian kora griot Toumani Diabaté in July is a great loss to music. Born in Bamako in 1965, in post-independence Mali, Diabaté grew up playing traditional music. but as a leader he was a modernist from the get-go, collaborating with flamenco fusionists Ketama and English bassist Danny Thompson on the excellent Songhai (Nuevos ...
Bassekou Kouyaté At Regional Cultural Centre
by Ian Patterson
Bassekou Kouyaté Earagail Arts Festival Regional Cultural Centre Letterkenny, Ireland July 27, 2024 Few West African musicians have done as much as Bassekou Kouyaté to take the ngoni, an ancient West African string instrument, to the wider world. Born in Garana in 1966, Kouyaté first wowed ...
Ancient To The Future: Fatoumata Diawara At Carnegie Hall
by Dave Kaufman
Fatoumata Diawara was a featured performer at the Journey into Afrofuturism Festival, organized by Carnegie Hall on Friday, March 4. It is a (NY) city-wide festival “where music, visual arts, science fiction, and technology intersect to imagine alternate realities and a liberated future viewed through the lens of Black cultures." Chimurenga Renaissance, a Zimbabwean-centered hip-hop collective, ...
Weedie Braimah, Graham Costello, Cyrille-Parker-Rava & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
In this set we focus on recent & upcoming albums and catch up on a number of 2021 gems that weren't featured with a special focus on Afro-centric projects.Happy listening!PlaylistBen Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme" 0:00 Young Pilgrims “Rufio" We're Young Pilgrims (Stoney Lane) 0:16 Host talks 5:48 Graham Costello “Impetu" Second Lives ...
The Ripple Effect
By Bela Fleck
Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2020
Track listing: Bamako; Nashville; Snug Harbor; Elyne Road; Matitu/Buribalal; Manchester; Throw Down Your Heart; Kauonding Sissoko; Katmandu; Dueling Banjos.
Bela Fleck and Toumani Diabate: The Ripple Effect
by Doug Collette
The Ripple Effect is the coup de grace of Bela Fleck's ten year-plus excursion into the African roots of his chosen instrument of the banjo, originally titled Throw Down Your Heart (Rounder, 2009). Part of a larger set comprised of both video and audio on DVD/CD, The Complete Africa Sessions (Craft Recordings, 2020), these ten concert ...
Bruford-Borstlap: Sheer Reckless Abandon
by John Kelman
One of the great joys of music can be that of distance: coming back to a piece of music, a musician/group or a discography, even, years later to rediscover it anew. While returning to music after a break of months, years...even decades...is not always a revelation, it's likely true that, if the music was appealing the ...
Ballaké Sissoko at Sheung Wan Civic Centre Theatre
by Rob Garratt
Ballaké SissokoSheung Wan Civic Centre Theatre Le French May Arts FestivalHong Kong May 5, 2019 The kora must be one of the world's great improvisatory instruments, and Mali's Ballaké Sissoko is surely one of the instrument's most visible proponents. Somewhere between a harp and a double lute, the ...
