GRIOT GALAXY fand ich immer toll, vor allem auch wegen der rhythm section tabbal / shahid. muss ich mal mehr hören.
If — big IF — Griot Galaxy had been part of Ken Burns’ 19-hour, 10-part documentary, “Jazz,” the group would have been jammed into the couple of dismissive minutes that covered the avant-garde that flourished between Coltrane’s death in 1967 and the back-to-tradition revival that Wynton Marsalis heralded 15 years later. Bands like the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Sun Ra challenged preconceptions about what jazz should be; in turn, they were accused of alienating the jazz audience — especially the African-American audience — and driving the music into obscurity. Or so goes one version of jazz history. Those were the bands that influenced Griot.
von hier (toller text über bey, allerdings von 2003).
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