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2 days ago · After exploring blues, Ellington and Monk, he goes back to Africa, to the roots of Jazz. «Blue Africa» was recorded with the invaluable double bass of Franco Feruglio, who comes from the same area. The album is a striking journey through the different African music traditions, reworked with the original creativity of a contemporary improviser.
5 days ago · Nevertheless, this track shows its composer’s ambition to step away from the conventions of 1940’s jazz. This is shown by its Afro-Caribbean rhythms, innovative approach to harmony and melody, and by its departure from the standard walking bass line of 1940s jazz.
4 days ago · Pucho And His Latin Soul Brothers - Yaina (US 1971) [Full LP] {Afro-Cuban Latin Jazz-Funk} FANTASTIC. A1 - 0:00 - Cease The Bombing [Written by Niel Creque]A2 - 5:33 - Chitterlings Con...
4 days ago · His music is a "hypnotic blend of Jazz, Timba, Funk, Afro Caribbean rhythms and melodies!" No music charge, $40 food and drink minimum for seatings at 6:15 and 8:45. Reservations required.
5 days ago · The 31st Anniversary of the African/Caribbean International Festival of Life (IFOL), is set for Thursday-Sunday, July 4th t thru 7th, 2024, Independence week in Washington Park, Chicago, Illinois; visit internationalfestivaloflife.com.
5 days ago · Veteran trumpeter Derrick Gardner took his long-standing Jazz Prophets sextet on a five-week tour through the West African country of Ghana last summer. The trip provided the inspiration and thematic basis for the band’s current release, Pan Africa.
3 days ago · Studying Sino Caribbean participation in the two cultural juggernauts of Caribbean cultural production, music and Carnival, reveals the vexed position of these modes of performance in relation to conventional historical narratives of colonialism, as well as struggles related to multiple and resilient essentialist discourses of nationalism and identity formation.
