jazz

<p>BBNG X FLOCKEY OCSCOR (2017)<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWYX0MIl1nE" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWYX0MIl1nE"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWYX0M</span><span class="invisible">Il1nE</span></a></p><p>Flockey puts words over the Canadian jazz group BADBADNOTGOOD&#x27;s track &quot;Cashmere&quot;.</p><p>Bitter Dream on SoundCloud: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/flockey/flockey-ocscor-bitter-dream" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="soundcloud.com/flockey/flockey-ocscor-bitter-dream"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">soundcloud.com/flockey/flockey</span><span class="invisible">-ocscor-bitter-dream</span></a></p><p>BBNG IV on Bandcamp: <a href="https://badbadnotgoodofficial.bandcamp.com/album/iv" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="badbadnotgoodofficial.bandcamp.com/album/iv"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">badbadnotgoodofficial.bandcamp</span><span class="invisible">.com/album/iv</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/spokenword/" rel="tag">#SpokenWord</a> <a href="/tags/rap/" rel="tag">#Rap</a> <a href="/tags/hiphop/" rel="tag">#HipHop</a> <a href="/tags/congo/" rel="tag">#Congo</a></p>

<p>Gangbé, the sound of metal</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/sound-metal-gangbe-brass-band/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/sound-metal-gangbe-brass-band/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/sound-metal-</span><span class="invisible">gangbe-brass-band/</span></a></p><p>Enjoy the Sound of Metal (Gangbe in Fon)!</p><p>The Gangbé Brass Band was a 10-member Beninese musical ensemble founded in 1994.</p><p>Disclaimer: I spent a lot of time with them...</p><p><a href="/tags/photography/" rel="tag">#Photography</a> <a href="/tags/benin/" rel="tag">#Benin</a> <a href="/tags/brassband/" rel="tag">#BrassBand</a> <a href="/tags/soundcloud/" rel="tag">#Soundcloud</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a></p>

<p>started listening <a href="https://neodb.social/search?r=1&q=https://neodb.social/album/6tDavMPtUJpMQuRoRZLDKR" rel="nofollow">Mingus Ah Um</a> <br>One of the best recording by Charles Mingus, especially the second track, which Mingus&#x27; tribute to Lester Young </p><p><a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#Music</a> <a href="/tags/mingus/" rel="tag">#Mingus</a> <a href="/tags/neodb/" rel="tag">#NeoDB</a><br></p>

<p>Manu Dibango &amp; Soul Makossa Gang (live)</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/manu-dibango-soul-makossa-gang/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/manu-dibango-soul-makossa-gang/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/manu-dibango</span><span class="invisible">-soul-makossa-gang/</span></a></p><p>Le Soul Makossa Gang était la formation favorite du célèbre multi-instrumentiste et compositeur Manu Dibango.</p><p>Dédicace à tous ceux qui ont eu la chance de le voir sur scène, comme ce fut le cas pour moi au Petit Journal Montparnasse par exemple.</p><p><a href="/tags/cameroon/" rel="tag">#Cameroon</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/livemusic/" rel="tag">#LiveMusic</a> <a href="/tags/makossa/" rel="tag">#Makossa</a> <a href="/tags/manudibango/" rel="tag">#ManuDibango</a></p>

<p>The Story of Ethio Jazz</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/story-ethio-jazz-mulatu-astatke/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/story-ethio-jazz-mulatu-astatke/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/story-ethio-</span><span class="invisible">jazz-mulatu-astatke/</span></a></p><p>Vibraphone and keyboard player, master arranger and bandleader, Mulatu Astatke is one of the all-time greats of Ethiopian music and the creator of his own original music form, Ethio jazz. Through the acclaimed Ethiopiques album series and through featuring on the soundtrack to the Jim Jarmusch film Broken Flowers, his music has belatedly reached […]</p><p><a href="/tags/60smusic/" rel="tag">#60smusic</a> <a href="/tags/70smusic/" rel="tag">#70smusic</a> <a href="/tags/ethiojazz/" rel="tag">#Ethiojazz</a> <a href="/tags/ethiopia/" rel="tag">#Ethiopia</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/mulatuastatké/" rel="tag">#MulatuAstatké</a></p>

<p>Chakalaka Jazz</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/chakalaka-jazz/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/chakalaka-jazz/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/chakalaka-ja</span><span class="invisible">zz/</span></a></p><p>Chakalaka Jazz (a reference to a local sauce made from tomatoes, onions and peppers) was released in November 2024 on double vinyl, CD and digital, and includes eleven gems released in South Africa between 1969 and 2003. […]</p><p>The Tailfeathers - Tail Feathers<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meu4a30Pp7w" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=meu4a30Pp7w"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=meu4a3</span><span class="invisible">0Pp7w</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/souljazz/" rel="tag">#SoulJazz</a> <a href="/tags/southafrica/" rel="tag">#SouthAfrica</a> <a href="/tags/afrojazz/" rel="tag">#AfroJazz</a></p>

<p>Lester Bowie – For Fela</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/lester-bowie-for-fela/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/lester-bowie-for-fela/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/lester-bowie</span><span class="invisible">-for-fela/</span></a></p><p>Lester Bowie spent 6 months in Lagos with Fela Kuti in 1977.</p><p>The original version is on the LP “African Children”, released in 1978. […]</p><p><a href="/tags/felakuti/" rel="tag">#FelaKuti</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/afrobeat/" rel="tag">#Afrobeat</a></p>

<p>Bokani Dyer – Ke Nako</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/bokani-dyer-ke-nako/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/bokani-dyer-ke-nako/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/bokani-dyer-</span><span class="invisible">ke-nako/</span></a></p><p>Bokani Dyer is a multi-award winning Motswana-South African pianist, composer and producer. Bokani Dyer opens with “Ke Nako” (now’s the time), with an irony, because that was a slogan used to get voters to the polls in the first post-apartheid election. Now, Dyer’s using it to remind us to think again about who we are […]</p><p><a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/southafrica/" rel="tag">#SouthAfrica</a></p>

<p>finished listening <a href="https://neodb.social/search?r=1&q=https://neodb.social/album/6tDavMPtUJpMQuRoRZLDKR" rel="nofollow">Mingus Ah Um</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 <br>One of the best recording by Charles Mingus, especially the second track, which Mingus&#x27; tribute to Lester Young </p><p><a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#Music</a> <a href="/tags/mingus/" rel="tag">#Mingus</a> <a href="/tags/neodb/" rel="tag">#NeoDB</a><br></p>

<p>Pianist Alexander Hawkins on playing with the late, great Louis Moholo. An excellent tribute. </p><p><a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#jazz</a></p><p><a href="https://ukjazznews.com/10-tracks-i-cant-do-without-louis-moholo-moholo-a-tribute/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="ukjazznews.com/10-tracks-i-cant-do-without-louis-moholo-moholo-a-tribute/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ukjazznews.com/10-tracks-i-can</span><span class="invisible">t-do-without-louis-moholo-moholo-a-tribute/</span></a></p>

<p>Feya Faku, trumpeter, flugelhorn player, and teacher passed away in Switzerland, yesterday while on tour.</p><p>Impilo<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7DzV1dHpSI" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7DzV1dHpSI"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7DzV1</span><span class="invisible">dHpSI</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/southafrica/" rel="tag">#SouthAfrica</a></p>

<p>Black Europe (pre-1927)</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/black-europe-before-1927/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/black-europe-before-1927/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/black-europe</span><span class="invisible">-before-1927/</span></a></p><p>The first comprehensive documentation of the sounds and images of black people in Europe pre-1927 Black men and women – long present in Europe – have long been overlooked as pioneering personalities in modern mass media. From the early years of the recording industry, people of African descent were featured on European phonograph cylinders, gramophone […]</p><p><a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/blackmastodon/" rel="tag">#BlackMastodon</a></p>

<p>wants to listen <a href="https://neodb.social/search?r=1&q=https://neodb.social/album/7DEXxrzsuhZdmI8pk6jBM3" rel="nofollow">Portrait In Jazz</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 <br>Favorite Jazz pianist of all time </p><p><a href="/tags/billevans/" rel="tag">#BillEvans</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/piano/" rel="tag">#Piano</a> <br></p>

<p>wants to listen <a href="https://neodb.social/search?r=1&q=https://neodb.social/album/6tDavMPtUJpMQuRoRZLDKR" rel="nofollow">Mingus Ah Um</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 <br>One of the best recording by Charles Mingus, especially the second track, which Mingus&#x27; tribute to Lester Young </p><p><a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#Music</a> <a href="/tags/mingus/" rel="tag">#Mingus</a> <a href="/tags/neodb/" rel="tag">#NeoDB</a><br></p>

<p>Finally took the time (my internet connection was down...) to watch Johan Grimonprez&#x27; documentary &quot;Soundtrack to a Coup d&#x27;Etat&quot;.</p><p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14452174/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.imdb.com/title/tt14452174/</a></p><p>If you&#x27;re interested in <a href="/tags/africa/" rel="tag">#Africa</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/un/" rel="tag">#UN</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> it&#x27;s really worth your time.</p><p>If you want to better understand what happened when <a href="/tags/congo/" rel="tag">#Congo</a> &quot;tried&quot; <a href="/tags/independence/" rel="tag">#Independence</a> from <a href="/tags/belgium/" rel="tag">#Belgium</a> in 1960, how USA conspired to kill <a href="/tags/patricelumumba/" rel="tag">#PatriceLumumba</a> and why there was a war in <a href="/tags/katanga/" rel="tag">#Katanga</a>, then there&#x27;s a lot in this documentary, while listening to good music.</p>

<p>Louis Armstrong sings “Black and Blue” in Ghana</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/louis-armstrong-sings-black-blue-ghana/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/louis-armstrong-sings-black-blue-ghana/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/louis-armstr</span><span class="invisible">ong-sings-black-blue-ghana/</span></a></p><p>Louis Armstrong spent 2 days in Ghana in 1956, as part of The Jazz Ambassadors program to represent America abroad. He sang and played “Black and Blue” in front of the future Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah.</p><p>I’m white inside, it don’t help my case<br>‘Cause I can’t hide, what is on my face, oh!</p><p>When Louis […]</p><p><a href="/tags/documentary/" rel="tag">#Documentary</a> <a href="/tags/ghana/" rel="tag">#Ghana</a> <a href="/tags/highlife/" rel="tag">#Highlife</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a></p>

<p>Benjamin Jephta X Kujenga – The Blessing (Live at Artscape)<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=052sHF3U5TA" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=052sHF3U5TA"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=052sHF</span><span class="invisible">3U5TA</span></a></p><p>From &quot;Homecoming Revisited&quot; based on Jephta&#x27;s first album, released when he was 22, in 2015: <a href="https://benjaminjephta.bandcamp.com/album/homecoming-2" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="benjaminjephta.bandcamp.com/album/homecoming-2"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">benjaminjephta.bandcamp.com/al</span><span class="invisible">bum/homecoming-2</span></a></p><p>Latest album: <a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/benjamin-jephta-quintet-homecoming/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/benjamin-jephta-quintet-homecoming/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/benjamin-jep</span><span class="invisible">hta-quintet-homecoming/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/southafrica/" rel="tag">#SouthAfrica</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/livemusic/" rel="tag">#LiveMusic</a></p>

<p>Viwe Mkizwana - Black child<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtu-tMi8w8k" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtu-tMi8w8k"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtu-tM</span><span class="invisible">i8w8k</span></a></p><p>New track &quot;People of the South&quot; for bassist and composer Viwe Mkizwana who assembles some of the sharpest voices in the scene—Bokani Dyer, Marcus Wyatt, and more...<br>Spotify: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/7kZlZhiFGK51U3XEyRDcOu" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="open.spotify.com/track/7kZlZhiFGK51U3XEyRDcOu"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.spotify.com/track/7kZlZhi</span><span class="invisible">FGK51U3XEyRDcOu</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/southafrica/" rel="tag">#SouthAfrica</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a></p>

<p>Sidiba – Super Boiro Band</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/sidiba-super-boiro-band/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/sidiba-super-boiro-band/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/sidiba-super</span><span class="invisible">-boiro-band/</span></a></p><p>After Independence (1958), the first state Orchestra was created as Orchestre de la Garde Republicaine and was instructed to drop “European march tunes in favor of music benefiting the new nation”. Later the orchestra split into 2 bands: 1st and 2nd. Orchestre 1er changed name to Super Boiro Band.</p><p><a href="/tags/70smusic/" rel="tag">#70smusic</a> <a href="/tags/guinea/" rel="tag">#Guinea</a> <a href="/tags/independence/" rel="tag">#Independence</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a></p>

<p>If you already watched &quot;Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat&quot;, or want to, this is a <a href="/tags/mustread/" rel="tag">#MustRead</a> interview with Johan Gimonprez</p><p>Making films against amnesia<br>&quot;The director of the Oscar-nominated film &#x27;Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat&#x27; reflects on imperial violence, corporate warfare, and how cinema can disrupt the official record—and help us remember differently.&quot;<br><a href="https://africasacountry.com/2025/04/making-films-against-amnesia" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="africasacountry.com/2025/04/making-films-against-amnesia"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">africasacountry.com/2025/04/ma</span><span class="invisible">king-films-against-amnesia</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/africa/" rel="tag">#Africa</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/congo/" rel="tag">#Congo</a> <a href="/tags/rdc/" rel="tag">#RDC</a> <a href="/tags/drc/" rel="tag">#DRC</a> <a href="/tags/aiac/" rel="tag">#AIAC</a></p>

<p>AfroJazz sélection n°2 : 🇿🇦 <br>(sur mon blog principal)</p><p><a href="https://www.didiermary.fr/jazz-sud-africain-afrojazz/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.didiermary.fr/jazz-sud-africain-afrojazz/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.didiermary.fr/jazz-sud-afr</span><span class="invisible">icain-afrojazz/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/afrojazz/" rel="tag">#AfroJazz</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/southafrica/" rel="tag">#SouthAfrica</a></p>

<p>Sathima Bea Benjamin – Winnie Mandela Beloved Heroine</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/sathima-bea-benjamin-winnie-mandela-beloved-heroine/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/sathima-bea-benjamin-winnie-mandela-beloved-heroine/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/sathima-bea-</span><span class="invisible">benjamin-winnie-mandela-beloved-heroine/</span></a></p><p>About Beloved Heroine in an interview with Carol Ann Muller in Musical Echoes:<br>“I wanted to write this song for Winnie [Mandela], because I absolutely identified with her,” says Benjamin. “I could feel her pain,” Benjamin writes of her subject’s “soft, gentle eyes reflecting those unshed tears”.</p><p>Winnie Nomzamo Madikizela-Mandela<br>26 September 1936 – 2 April 2018</p><p><a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/madiba/" rel="tag">#Madiba</a> <a href="/tags/southafrica/" rel="tag">#SouthAfrica</a> <a href="/tags/apartheid/" rel="tag">#Apartheid</a></p>

<p>Dhafer Youssef – Diwan of Beauty and Odd</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/dhafer-youssef-diwan-beauty-odd-trailer/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/dhafer-youssef-diwan-beauty-odd-trailer/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/dhafer-youss</span><span class="invisible">ef-diwan-beauty-odd-trailer/</span></a></p><p>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, […]</p><p>Trailer<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ5YHNQ1DcU" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ5YHNQ1DcU"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ5YHN</span><span class="invisible">Q1DcU</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/epk/" rel="tag">#EPK</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/tunisia/" rel="tag">#Tunisia</a></p>

<p>started listening <a href="https://neodb.social/search?r=1&q=https://neodb.social/album/7DEXxrzsuhZdmI8pk6jBM3" rel="nofollow">Portrait In Jazz</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 <br>Favorite Jazz pianist of all time </p><p><a href="/tags/billevans/" rel="tag">#BillEvans</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/piano/" rel="tag">#Piano</a> <br></p>

<p>finished listening <a href="https://neodb.social/search?r=1&q=https://neodb.social/album/7DEXxrzsuhZdmI8pk6jBM3" rel="nofollow">Portrait In Jazz</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 <br>Favorite Jazz pianist of all time </p><p><a href="/tags/billevans/" rel="tag">#BillEvans</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/piano/" rel="tag">#Piano</a> <br></p>