Gabopatwe & Mpho Sebina - Lerato
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j_lHYGDH0A
James Gabopatwe (piano) with multi-award nominee Mpho Sebina.
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John Coltrane – Dahomey Dance
https://amf.didiermary.fr/john-coltrane-dahomey-dance/
“Olé Coltrane” is the ninth album by jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1961 on Atlantic Records.
Dahomey is the ancient name of Bénin, a West African country.
Two days prior to the recording of Olé Coltrane, Coltrane had made Africa/Brass, his inaugural recording session for his new label, Impulse! Records. […]
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Grachan Moncur III – New Africa
https://amf.didiermary.fr/rss-club/grachan-moncur-new-africa/
Grachan Moncur III (June 1937 – June 2022) was an American jazz trombonist. Moncur joined Archie Shepp’s ensemble, and recorded with other avant-garde players, working for Blue Note. His album New Africa was recorded in 1969 in Paris. […]
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Tefo Mahola – First Offering
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tefo-mahola-first-offering/
Tefo Mahola (aka “Talking Drum”) is a drummer and composer from Gugulethu, Cape Town. His first album “First Offering” was released in 2020. He’s Mzantsi Jazz Awards “Best Album of 2021” winner. Thembi (Thembelihle) Dunjana appears on piano.
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JuJu – A Message from Mozambique
https://amf.didiermary.fr/rss-club/juju-a-message-from-mozambique/
Juju’s powerful and political 1973 Afro Free Jazz album “A Message From Mozambique” with James “Plunky” Branch, the activist and US jazz saxophonist, songwriter, label owner and music and film producer, allegedly born in 1947.
The roots of Juju started in San Francisco after Plunky had met his musical mentor, Zulu musician Ndikho Xaba, helping […]
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Okyerema Asante – Mother Africa
https://amf.didiermary.fr/okyerema-asante-mother-africa/
“Mother Africa” from the album Drum Message, a seminal bit of funky Afrojazz from the DC scene of the 70s!
The album features work by Okyerema Asante (Ghanaian master percussionist) and also includes sax work by James “Plunky” Branch (aka Plunky Nkabinde) — best known as the leader of the group Oneness Of Juju. […]
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Anita O'day - Whisper Not
#JazzDeVille #Jazz #NowPlaying #AnitaO'day
EMAMKAY – Love Is Energy
https://amf.didiermary.fr/rss-club/emamkay-love-is-energy/
Issued on Kid Fonque‘s STY TRU BTS imprint, ‘Love Is Energy’ is the third studio album from South African multi-instrumentalist, emcee, beatmaker and producer EMAMKAY.
Raised and based between Soweto (Johannesburg) and Pretoria, EMAMKAY’s jazz-tinged lo-fi hiphop sound lays bare the artist’s influences, which range from J-Dilla, Flying Lotus and D’Angelo, to Smokey Robinson and […]
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Dollar Brand – African Space Program
https://amf.didiermary.fr/dollar-brand-african-space-program-1974/
“African Space Program”, recorded in 1973, contains 3 compositions by Abdullah Ibrahim / Dollar Brand, where he arranges for a big band.
"This is unique, pancultural music. Brand, as his followers know, is a native-bom South African who is well-versed both in modern conservatory music and in the music of his native Africa. He’s skilled [...]"
#AbdullahIbrahim #FullAlbum #Jazz #LiveMusic #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz
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Abdullah Ibrahim – Jabula
https://amf.didiermary.fr/abdullah-ibrahim-jabula/
Jabula is a track by South African jazz legend Abdullah Ibrahim (AKA Dollar Brand) who released in 2019 his first album in five years: The Balance. Entitled ‘The Balance’, this project featured his long-time septet Ekaya, a line-up that he’s been recording with since 1983. In this case, the album was recorded over the course […] …
读过 Who Was Langston Hughes? 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
这本好玩，学到不少新概念，爵士诗歌、哈林文艺复兴，年轻时被共产主义（作为美国种族隔离的替代）吸引去过苏联和中国，晚年逐渐远离且去政治化。这本是 Gregory Copeland 的插画。
#biography #children #jazz poetry #poem #传记
Music app says the piece I listened
to most last year was Weather Report's 1977 "Birdland." Jaco's bass lead-in grabs me the first hard note. It's magic.
Art Blakey & The Afro-Drum Ensemble – Ayiko Ayiko
https://amf.didiermary.fr/art-blakey-afro-drum-ensemble-ayiko-ayiko/
The track “Ayiko Ayiko”, by Art Blakey & The Afro-Drum Ensemble, and the album “The African Beat” (Blue Note, 1962) as a whole, is very important to me, as it is probably the origin of what I do today, e.g. on this site.
At least, I became a Jazz & African musics aficionado…
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It’s not from Africa, it’s about it…
https://amf.didiermary.fr/black-gold-esperanza-spalding/
Black Gold by Esperanza Spalding (special guest: Algebra Blessett), from her album “Radio Music Society,” released for the first day of Black History Month in 2012.
To the press, she wrote “This song is singing to our African American heritage before slavery. Over the decades, so much of the strength in the African American community […]"
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Mwandishi Sextet Project
Herbie Hancock‘s three records released in 1971–73 later became known as the “Mwandishi” albums, so-called after a Swahili name Hancock sometimes used during this era (“Mwandishi” is Swahili for “writer”).
Back in the early 1970s when Jazz met Afrofuturism, Psychedelism and electronic experimentation. […]
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Renegades of Jazz
After his conceptual and darker approach to his last album released in 2015, Renegades Of Jazz explore the world of Afrofunk, a world German producer & DJ David Hanke is deeply linked to since he spent an influential part of his childhood in Arusha/Tanzania in the early 1980s. […]
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Getatchew Mekuria & The Ex
https://amf.didiermary.fr/rss-club/getatchew-mekuria-the-ex/
Getatchew Mekuria is the most revered veteran of the Ethiopian saxophone. He is a real giant, both physically and musically. In his seventies, he is still in full voice, with his own, powerfully distinctive style of playing. […]
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Nubya Garcia – Odyssey
https://amf.didiermary.fr/rss-club/nubya-garcia-odyssey/
The multi-award-winning tenor saxophonist, bandleader and composer Nubya Garcia released her solo album “Odyssey” in September 2024, with guests such as Esperanza Spalding and Georgia Anne Muldrow.
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Jazz’n Kora… So What…
https://amf.didiermary.fr/jazz-kora-miles-davis-so-what-cover/
Djeli Moussa Diawara covering Miles Davis’ So What, live in Paris in 2011.
Djeli Moussa Diawara plays a unique 32-strings Kora, where he can have access to the traditional harp-luth sounds and some guitar/bass ones in one instrument.
Disclaimer: I was the producer here.
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Rashid Vally, the visionary behind South Africa’s iconic jazz label As-Shams, forged a legacy of revolutionary jazz that defied apartheid, and continues to inspire new generations of musicians, activists, and music lovers.
https://africasacountry.com/2024/12/the-sun-shows-the-way
Caravan – Djeli Moussa Diawara
https://amf.didiermary.fr/duke-ellington-caravan-djeli-moussa-diawara/
Cover version of Duke Ellington’s Caravan (recorded + live) by Djeli Moussa Diawara on Kora.
Disclaimer: I produced the album Yékéké (Paris 2010)
This track was recorded and produced earlier.
#Guinea #Jazz #Kora #LiveMusic #AfroJazz #DukeEllington #Caravan
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Hadouk Trio – Baldamore
Hadouk Trio, est un groupe d’ethno-jazz ou world jazz français. Baldamore est un album live en 2007 et sa sortie fut accompagnée d’un DVD enregistré en particulier au Cabaret Sauvage.
Composé de Didier Malherbe, Loy Ehrlich et @steveshehan , Hadouk Trio fut consacré meilleure formation dans la catégorie « artiste ou formation instrumentale française de l’année » […]
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Kora Jazz Trio – Folly
https://amf.didiermary.fr/kora-jazz-trio-folly-mezzo/
Kora Jazz Trio was a three piece African musical group, founded in 2002 by Djeli Moussa Diawara, Guinean Korafola, with Abdoulaye Diabate (piano) and Moussa Sissokho (percussion), best known for producing a music that is a mix of American jazz with traditional African music. They released 3 studio albums […]
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Legendary saxophonist and Sun Ra Arkestra leader Marshall Allen celebrates 100 years with his debut solo album New Dawn, out Feb. 14.
Assa Matusse - Aprendeste aonde?
https://youtu.be/dTufgpX6sQA
Live version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHhMmgLHf68