i'm in my jazz phase. please send jazz.
'Count Basie and his orchestra - Atomic' album has blown my mind.
jazz
El sábado 27 de junio, 13:00 estaré a dúo con Carlos Lorite (guitarra) #EnDirecto en un (¿qué otra cosa?) homenaje a #DjangoReinhardt en #LaVidaTieneSentidos (calle, Ave María, 20 - Lavapiés). Vermús, cervezas, vinos, refrescos (el agua para los patos y los peces pero no para los centros de datos), quesos, charcutería surtida y qué mejor para un sábado a la hora del aperitivo que un buen concierto en vivo, en directo, sin red y con sed.
¡Nos vemos!
#JazzManouche #Jazz #GypsyJazz #Music
Mulatu Astatke & Black Jesus Experience – Cradle Of Humanity
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mulatu-astatke-black-jesus-experience-cradle-humanity/
Cradle Of Humanity features Mulatu Astatke, the Father Of Ethiojazz, in collaboration with Australian musical collective Black Jesus Experience.
Cradle Of Humanity is the funkified product of seven years of performances together around the world, brought to fruition in studios in [...]
#Ethiojazz #Ethiopia #FullAlbum #Jazz #MulatuAstatké #AfroJazz
Edited 138d ago
Keletigui Diabate Feat. Habib Koite – Summertime at Bamako
https://amf.didiermary.fr/keletigui-diabate-habib-koite-summertime-bamako/
“Summertime at Bamako” is a track on Kélétigui Diabaté’s album “Sandiya” with Habib Koité on guitar. The master balafonist revisits American composer George Gershwin’s Summertime from Porgy & Bess (1935).
“The song soon became a popular and much-recorded jazz standard, described as ‘without doubt … one of the finest [...]
Edited 138d ago
Lester Bowie – For Fela
https://amf.didiermary.fr/lester-bowie-for-fela/
Lester Bowie spent 6 months in Lagos with Fela Kuti in 1977. Here’s an interview where he tells the full story.
“For Fela” is on side D of the double-LP “African Children”, released in 1978.
Lester Bowie appeared on the "No Agreement" LP, recorded by Fela Kuti in 1977. […]
Edited 138d ago
Group Theory Black Music
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tumi-mogorosi-group-theory-black-music/
“The Group Theory Black Music” documentary follows the creative process, and intentions between drummer Tumi Mogorosi and the many collaborators on the album.
Since his international debut on Jazzman Records in 2014 with Project ELO, Mogorosi has been in the vanguard of the South African creative music scene’s burgeoning outernational dimension, [...]
Edited 135d ago
Black Lightning – Dollar Brand
https://amf.didiermary.fr/black-lightning-dollar-brand/
A rare LP, recorded in 1976 for the Gallo label in South Africa and issued in the US, Black Lightning finds the great pianist Abdullah Ibrahim (still generally known as Dollar Brand at this point) in the company of a number of fellow South African musicians for a very fine session that focuses on his […]
Witchdoctor’s Son
https://amf.didiermary.fr/witchdoctor-son-johnny-dyani/
Johnny Mbizo Dyani with John Tchicai & Dudu Pukwana recorded “Witchdoctor’s Son” in 1978.
“The pieces reflect Dyani’s upbringing in the township style prevalent in South Africa, a joyous, surging music which seeks to transcend the horror […]
Edited 134d ago
Sipho Gumede – Down South
https://amf.didiermary.fr/sipho-gumede-down-south/
Born in Cato Manor, Durban, Sipho Gumede was a SouthAfrican Jazz/fusion bassist and composer. A proud Zulu, he died in July 2004, at the age of 52.
“Studying jazz from a young age, Sipho began to explore mixing traditional South African music with jazz and later, modern Western influences. A prolific and pioneering composer […]
Edited 203d ago
Frances "Fran" Kuboye (Nee Ransome-Kuti) was Fela's niece. She died 19 days after his in 1997.
She was a dentist and a talented singer. Married to Tunde Kuboye, they formed the Jazz 38 Club (Ikoyi, Lagos) together in the 70s. It was the most important jazz hub in the country at the time, where Fela and Femi would play occasionally.
Here's a short documentary from 1991.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz-tGrSisy4
Edited 133d ago
Gasper Lawal – Ajomasé
https://amf.didiermary.fr/gasper-lawal-ajomase/
“Ajomasé,” originally released in 1980 on his own label CAP, is the groundbreaking debut album by legendary Nigerian percussionist Gasper Lawal.
Mixing traditional Nigerian percussions, Rock & Jazz, he starts working on his own compositions in 1976, in his spare time or when he can access a studio, with the best musicians available [...]
#70smusic #80smusic #FullAlbum #Jazz #Nigeria #Psychedelic #Rock #AfroJazz
Edited 78d ago
Grand Kallé & African Jazz – Satchmo Okuka Lokole
https://amf.didiermary.fr/grand-kalle-african-jazz-satchmo-okuka-lokole/
When Louis Armstrong visited Congo on October 28, 1960 and arrived in Leopoldville to perform with his All Stars, booked by the State Department and sponsored by Pepsi Co, Joseph Kabasele (Grand Kallé) followed the tradition: he had a song ready for Satchmo…
Louis Armstrong was sent […]
Edited 129d ago
Finally took the time (my internet connection was down...) to watch Johan Grimonprez' documentary "Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat".
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14452174/
If you're interested in #Africa #History #UN #Jazz it's really worth your time.
If you want to better understand what happened when #Congo "tried" #Independence from #Belgium in 1960, how USA conspired to kill #PatriceLumumba and why there was a war in #Katanga, then there's a lot in this documentary, while listening to good music.
Edited 1y ago
Dowdelin Feat. Pat Kalla – Funky Chicken
https://amf.didiermary.fr/dowdelin-pat-kalla-funky-chicken/
Electro-Kréol ode to the famous “Poulet Bicyclette,” by Dowdelin, on their EP “Poul Wélélé”, released in 2019.
“Dowdelin explores as a tireless ever moving trailbazer a path where Creole jazz, electronic dancefloor sounds and Caribbean percussions come together to create a unique Future Kréol feeling.” [...]
Edited 127d ago
Dance, No One’s Watching! (2024)
Ezra Collective - God Gave Me Feet For Dancing Feat. Yazmin Lacey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JUjFN9AuFU
Album on Bandcamp: https://ezracollective.bandcamp.com/album/dance-no-ones-watching
Nduduzo Makhathini - The Myth We Choose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfnnFdE5634
The LP features a wide array of featured artists: Muneyi, Black Coffee, Omagugu, Shabaka Hutchings, and Robin Fassie in video above.
https://shop.bluenote.com/products/the-myth-we-choose-cd
Obo Addy (Oboade)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/obo-addy-oboade/
Obo Addy (January 15, 1936 – September 13, 2012) was a Ghanaian drummer and dancer. He learned drumming at a very early age. He and his brothers drummed while his mother and sisters sang as his father, a priest and medicine man of the Ga people of southern Ghana, performed rituals.
When Addy was six, he […]
Edited 197d ago
Dhafer Youssef – Diwan of Beauty and Odd
https://amf.didiermary.fr/dhafer-youssef-diwan-beauty-odd-trailer/
Confronting the 24 quarter tones of Arabic music with the 12 semitones of Western music is not an easy task, and the experience often results in an impoverishment for both parties. Dhafer Youssef has managed to conquer, in a resolutely jazz setting, a space of complete freedom for his oud. His ethereal jazz, with long, […]
IzangoMa – Ngo Ma
https://amf.didiermary.fr/izangoma-ngo-ma/
IzangoMa is a 15-piece ensemble from Pretoria, South Africa, led by vocalist and guitarist Sibusile Xaba with DJ/producer AshK.
Ngo Ma is their first release in 2023.
The fifteen-piece kaleidoscopic ensemble IzangoMa might only be releasing its debut offering on the esteemed UK-based label Brownswood Recording this coming Northern Hemisphere Spring, [...]
#FullAlbum #Jazz #Psychedelic #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz #Electro
Edited 197d ago
Keleketla! – Future Toyi Toyi (Edit)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/keleketla-future-toyi-toyi/
Keleketla! (“response” as in “call-and-response”) is a collaborative project started in an independent library and media arts initiative in Johannesburg with the same name. It’s a production by the founders of the Ninja Tune label and Coldcut, in 2020.
There are 2 remixes, one as a GQOM track below.
Keleketla! is an expansive collaborative project, reaching outward from Johannesburg to [...]
Edited 197d ago
Fela Kuti – Waka Waka
https://amf.didiermary.fr/waka-waka-fela-ransome-kuti/
“Waka Waka” and “Se E Tun De” on this 45T from the sixties by Fela Ransome Kuti and His Koola Lobitos.
There’s a live version on the 3-disc set Highlife: Jazz and AfroSoul (1963-1969) below.
A collection of recordings made between 1963 and 1969 that provide unique insight into the beginnings of Kuti’s craft. […]
#60smusic #Compilation #FelaKuti #Highlife #Jazz #Nigeria #AfroJazz
Edited 196d ago
One of my backburner creative outlets is writing music using the open-source software Musescore. I write about one piece per year, if I'm lucky, but I enjoy having something to muse over in my downtime.
Here's one of the better pieces I've written, as played by the Musescore synths. It's the first movement of my "Swingphony", Op.5,6,7,8
Edited 197d ago
Sinkane – Ya Sudan
https://amf.didiermary.fr/sinkane-ya-sudan/
Sinkane (born Ahmed Abdullahi Gallab) is a Sudanese-American musician who blends prog rock, electronica, free jazz and funk rock with Sudanese pop.
Sudanese music is already an amalgamation at the intersection of Arabic, Ethiopian and West African musical styles. But Ahmed Gallab, the lead singer and mastermind behind the band, also has [...]
Edited 126d ago
The SN Project – Afrikanization
https://amf.didiermary.fr/sn-project-afrikanization/
Siphephelo Ndlovu (The SN Project) is a pianist and vocalist from South Africa. In 2020, his debut album titled “Afrikanization” was released, incorporating structures of the jazz language, blended with rich harmonies reminiscent of the isiZulu culture of South Africa.
Edited 126d ago
Sidiba – Super Boiro Band
https://amf.didiermary.fr/sidiba-super-boiro-band/
After Independence (1958), the first state Orchestra was created as Orchestre de la Garde Républicaine and was instructed to drop “European march tunes in favor of music benefiting the new nation”. Later the orchestra split into 2 bands: 1st (1er) and 2nd. “Orchestre 1er” changed its name to Super Boiro Band.
Edited 76d ago