afrojazz

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

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Mulatu Astatke & Black Jesus Experience

https://amf.didiermary.fr/mulatu-astatke-black-jesus-experience-to-know-without-knowing/

The legendary Mulatu Astatke blends his Ethio-jazz with the Melbourne-based group Black Jesus Experience‘s grooves on the 9-track album “To Know Without Knowing” in 2020.

#Ethiojazz #Ethiopia #FullAlbum #MulatuAstatké #AfroJazz

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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 [...]

#Balafon #Cover #Instrumental #Jazz #Mali #AfroJazz

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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, [...]

#Documentary #Jazz #LiveMusic #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz

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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 […]

#AbdullahIbrahim #Jazz #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz

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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 […]

#Jazz #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz #70sMusic

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Manu Dibango – Africadelic

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“The Panther” is the main AfroFunk track found on “Africadelic,” an album released in 1973 by “Manu Dibango And His African Pop Group”.

In fact, this album was released a year before as part of the Mondiophone collection, a “library of recorded background music”…
Music design by Papa Manu, what else?

#70smusic #AfroFunk #Cameroon #ManuDibango #AfroJazz

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Gasper Lawal – Ajomasé

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“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

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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

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Fela Kuti – Waka Waka

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“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

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The SN Project – Afrikanization

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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.

#Jazz #LiveMusic #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz

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Bulawayo Sweet Rhythms Band – Skokiaan (1947)

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Skokiaan (the Tsaba Tsaba Dance – also known as Skokiyana, Skokian) is probably better known in the version recorded by Louis Armstrong in 1954 with the Sy Oliver orchestra, but this track was originally released in Rhodesia in 1947 by the Bulawayo Sweet Rhythm(s) Band. The tune found it’s way to the U.S. and lots […]

#Jazz #SouthAfrica #Zimbabwe #AfroJazz

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Club Africa

https://amf.didiermary.fr/club-africa-compilation/

Club Africa is the name of 2 compilations of “Hard African Funk, Afro-Jazz And Original Afro-Beat” released in 1999 and 2000.

#70smusic #AfroFunk #Compilation #Jazz #AfroJazz

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Judith Sephuma – Iya Iyo (Stixx Remix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJI7XQwgI2E

"Education is the key, the key for many.
Let’s educate our children."

Judith Sephuma is a South African jazz and Afro-pop singer.

#SouthAfrica #Amapiano #Remixed #AfroJazz #Electro

Tony Allen – Tribute to Art Blakey (Live)

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Tony Allen’s EP A Tribute to Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers paid homage to the American jazz drummer, who he named as one of his earliest musical influences.
The album was released on Blue Note Records in 2017.

Recorded live in Paris with a seven-piece band, A Tribute to Art Blakey features four of the […]

#Jazz #LiveMusic #Nigeria #TonyAllen #AfroJazz #ArtBlakey

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Amagoduka – Zim Ngqawana

https://amf.didiermary.fr/zim-ngqawana-amagoduka-migrant-workers/

The song Amagoduka, by Zim Ngqawana, tells the tale of migrant workers who’ve historically had to leave their homes in the hinterlands for big cities in search of a better day.

Zim Ngqawana (1959-2011)
South African flautist and saxophonist, composer and teacher, Zimasile Ngqawana affectionately known as ‘Zim’ (and later as ‘Zimology’) was born in […]

#Jazz #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz

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The Jazz Epistles – Verse1

https://amf.didiermary.fr/the-jazz-epistles-vary-oo-vum/

Verse 1 by the Jazz Epistles in 1960 is “a genuine hard bop session, swinging and persuasive, coming out of South Africa in an era when black musicians weren’t making any recordings, let alone forward-looking modern jazz albums.”

[They] were South Africa’s first important (albeit short-lived) bebop band, inspired by Art Blakey‘s [...]

#60smusic #AbdullahIbrahim #HughMasekela #Jazz #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz

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Abdullah Ibrahim – Blues for a Hip King

https://amf.didiermary.fr/abdullah-ibrahim-blues-hip-king/

Abdullah Ibrahim composed this “Blues for a Hip King” for King Sobhuza II of Swaziland in 1989.

The eponymous album contains recordings gathered from several sessions in 1974, 1976 and 1979 and was first released under his “Dollar Brand” name.

#70smusic #AbdullahIbrahim #Jazz #SouthAfrica #Swaziland #AfroJazz

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Hugh Masekela & The Union of South Africa

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Jonas Gwangwa (1937 – 2021) was a genius trombone player from Soweto, South Africa. That’s him in the middle between 2 other South African geniuses, the late Hugh Masekela on the left, and Caiphus Semenya (born 1939), on the right, for their band Union of South Africa. The album, released in May 1971, is an […]

#70smusic #HughMasekela #Jazz #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz

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Jazz sud-africain

AfroJazz sélection n°2 : 🇿🇦

https://www.didiermary.fr/jazz-sud-africain-afrojazz/

#AfriqueDuSud #AfroJazz #Jazz #SouthAfrica

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