gypsy tail wind
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Die dritte CD – das Schema ist dasselbe wie bei Vol. 1 – ist wieder der „World Music“ gewidmet: Ismet Siral (ney/fl) mit Trilok Gurtu (tabla), Vasconcelos, Steve Gorn (fl), Orr und Berger (diesmal balafon) macht den Aufakt, dann folgen Stücke von Ustad Dagar (vina, solo), Aiyb Dieng/Berger (perc/vib Duo), Paulo Moura (reeds) mit Dieng und Gurtu, Amadou Jarr (djembe, solo) und Colin Walcott (mit Vasconcelos und Gurtu)
Von wegen Solo … auch das sind wieder Tracks mit grösseren Bands, mehr der Teilnehmer kennt man wohl einfach nicht mehr … Highlight ist der rollende Groove des Amadou Jarr-Tracks. In den Liner Notes steht dazu:
Little reliable info seems able to be found on Jarr, a percussionist who mostly
played the djembe; Adam Rudolph of Mandingo Griot Society tells the CMS
Oral History Project that Jarr had played with the Everyman Band, an exploratory
jazz-rock unit formed by musicians who’d once backed rock legend Lou Reed
(http://www.creativemusicfoundation.org/foday-musa-suso.html). The festive horns,
distinctive cycling guitar and shuffling dance rhythm on this piece have all the
spritely Afro-Caribbean lilt typical of West African highlife, and like the Paulo Moura
piece here, demonstrate the range and down-to-earth lack of pretention of the
avant-garde-identified CMS. The Live Action Brass Band has recorded a song called
“Alone In Sierra Leone” which it credits to Jarr. Check out the 1988 photo here —
http://kesfa.blogspot.com/2008/11/1998_13.html — from the fantastically named
Kenya Sweden Friendship Association, of “Amadou Jarr and children dancing to
African music”!
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"Don't play what the public want. You play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doin' -- even if it take them fifteen, twenty years." (Thelonious Monk) | Meine Sendungen auf Radio StoneFM: gypsy goes jazz, #164: Neuheiten aus dem Archiv, 10.6., 22:00 | Slow Drive to South Africa, #8: tba | No Problem Saloon, #30: tba