<p>The SN Project – Afrikanization</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/sn-project-afrikanization/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/sn-project-afrikanization/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/sn-project-a</span><span class="invisible">frikanization/</span></a></p><p>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.</p><p><a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/livemusic/" rel="tag">#LiveMusic</a> <a href="/tags/southafrica/" rel="tag">#SouthAfrica</a> <a href="/tags/afrojazz/" rel="tag">#AfroJazz</a></p>
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<p>Douala by Night</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/douala-by-night/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/douala-by-night/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/douala-by-ni</span><span class="invisible">ght/</span></a></p><p>“Douala by Night” est un excellent AfroJazzFunk de la fin des années 70, dernière piste de l’album “J.M. Tim & Foty” de Jean Marie Tiam (aka Tim) et Maurice Foty (décédé en 2011). L’album est paru en 1977. […]</p><p><a href="/tags/70smusic/" rel="tag">#70smusic</a> <a href="/tags/afrofunk/" rel="tag">#AfroFunk</a> <a href="/tags/cameroon/" rel="tag">#Cameroon</a> <a href="/tags/instrumental/" rel="tag">#Instrumental</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a></p>
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<p>Kokoroko – Abusey Junction</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/kokoroko-abusey-junction-we-out-here/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/kokoroko-abusey-junction-we-out-here/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/kokoroko-abu</span><span class="invisible">sey-junction-we-out-here/</span></a></p><p>Released in 2018, “Abusey Junction” is the first record track of 8-piece band, London-based jazz collective Kokoroko.</p><p>“We Out Here” is a primer on London’s bright-burning young jazz scene. This new compilation brings together a collection of some of its sharpest talents. A set of nine newly-recorded tracks, We Out Here captures a moment where […]</p><p><a href="/tags/compilation/" rel="tag">#Compilation</a> <a href="/tags/highlife/" rel="tag">#Highlife</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/afrobeat/" rel="tag">#AfroBeat</a></p>
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<p>Nobuhle Ashanti – Bait For Steps Forward</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/nobuhle-ashanti-bait-for-steps-forward/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/nobuhle-ashanti-bait-for-steps-forward/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/nobuhle-asha</span><span class="invisible">nti-bait-for-steps-forward/</span></a></p><p>Nobuhle Ashanti is a pianist, composer, and recording artist from Cape Town, South Africa. Her debut album – “Bait for Steps Forward” (released in March 2023) – features a wide variety of Cape Town’s leading poets, instrumentalists and vocalists. […]</p><p><a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/piano/" rel="tag">#Piano</a> <a href="/tags/southafrica/" rel="tag">#SouthAfrica</a> <a href="/tags/afrojazz/" rel="tag">#AfroJazz</a></p>
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<p>Next Stop Soweto</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/next-stop-soweto-compilations/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/next-stop-soweto-compilations/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/next-stop-so</span><span class="invisible">weto-compilations/</span></a></p><p>“Next Stop Soweto” is a compilation series, to remember an era of South Africa’s musical history where such genres as Funk and Soul were being played by bands even as apartheid firmly gripped the country’s music culture.</p><p>Volume 1 explores the vibrant energy of the township jive sound, whilst Volumes 2 and 3 cover [...]</p><p><a href="/tags/60smusic/" rel="tag">#60smusic</a> <a href="/tags/70smusic/" rel="tag">#70smusic</a> <a href="/tags/80smusic/" rel="tag">#80smusic</a> <a href="/tags/afrofunk/" rel="tag">#AfroFunk</a> <a href="/tags/apartheid/" rel="tag">#Apartheid</a> <a href="/tags/compilation/" rel="tag">#Compilation</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/mbaqanga/" rel="tag">#Mbaqanga</a> <a href="/tags/southafrica/" rel="tag">#SouthAfrica</a> <a href="/tags/afrojazz/" rel="tag">#AfroJazz</a></p>
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<p>Oratorio of a Forgotten Youth</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/oratorio-of-a-forgotten-youth/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/oratorio-of-a-forgotten-youth/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/oratorio-of-</span><span class="invisible">a-forgotten-youth/</span></a></p><p>Inspiré par le travail de grands musiciens comme Jonas Gwangwa et son Amandla Cultural Ensemble, qui a accompli un travail politique important pendant la longue lutte pour l’autodétermination qu’a connue l’Afrique du Sud, l’Amandla Freedom Ensemble est un jalon important pour la tradition du jazz sud-africain. [...]</p><p><a href="/tags/apartheid/" rel="tag">#Apartheid</a> <a href="/tags/interview/" rel="tag">#Interview</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/southafrica/" rel="tag">#SouthAfrica</a> <a href="/tags/afrojazz/" rel="tag">#AfroJazz</a></p>
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<p>Hugh Masekela – Night In Tunisia</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/hugh-masekela-night-in-tunisia/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/hugh-masekela-night-in-tunisia/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/hugh-masekel</span><span class="invisible">a-night-in-tunisia/</span></a></p><p>“Night in Tunisia” est l’un des morceaux extraits d’une compilation dédiée à Hugh Masekela “Township Grooves”, qui reprend des compositions datant des années 1965 à 1974.</p><p>C’est bien sûr une reprise de Dizzy Gillespie “A Night in Tunisia”, ici en live en 1981. […]</p><p><a href="/tags/cover/" rel="tag">#Cover</a> <a href="/tags/hughmasekela/" rel="tag">#HughMasekela</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/southafrica/" rel="tag">#SouthAfrica</a> <a href="/tags/afrojazz/" rel="tag">#AfroJazz</a></p>
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<p>Siya Makuzeni Sextet – Out of This World</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/siya-makuzeni-sextet-out-this-world/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/siya-makuzeni-sextet-out-this-world/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/siya-makuzen</span><span class="invisible">i-sextet-out-this-world/</span></a></p><p>Siya Makuzeni is a professional South African trombone player, vocalist, lyricist and songwriter regularly collaborating with other reknown South African musicians. She’s known for her extensive musical range, vocal dexterity, experimental creativity, and passion for symbiotic cross-genre influences.</p><p><a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/southafrica/" rel="tag">#SouthAfrica</a> <a href="/tags/afrojazz/" rel="tag">#AfroJazz</a></p>
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<p>Thandi Ntuli – Blk Elijah</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/thandi-ntuli-blk-elijah/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/thandi-ntuli-blk-elijah/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/thandi-ntuli</span><span class="invisible">-blk-elijah/</span></a></p><p>“Blk Elijah & The Children of Meroë” is the 5th release and 3rd studio album by South African Jazz pianist Thandi Ntuli.</p><p>Through her work over a hitherto 13-year career, Thandi has carved space for herself, and others seeking home, to fully exist – thereby firmly situating herself and the contemporary South African generation in […]</p><p><a href="/tags/epk/" rel="tag">#EPK</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/livemusic/" rel="tag">#LiveMusic</a> <a href="/tags/southafrica/" rel="tag">#SouthAfrica</a> <a href="/tags/afrojazz/" rel="tag">#AfroJazz</a></p>
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<p>Osibisa, the “Flying Elephants”</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/osibisa-flying-elephants/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/osibisa-flying-elephants/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/osibisa-flyi</span><span class="invisible">ng-elephants/</span></a></p><p>Osibisa is a British Afro-pop band, founded by Teddy Osei (RIP) in London in 1969 by four expatriate African (Ghana) and three Caribbean musicians. Osibisa were one of the first African bands to become widely popular, leading to claims of founding World Music.</p><p>I discovered Osibisa when I was a teen, and this band is […]</p><p><a href="/tags/70smusic/" rel="tag">#70smusic</a> <a href="/tags/ghana/" rel="tag">#Ghana</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a></p>
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<p>Etuk Ubong – Africa Today</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/etuk-ubong-africa-today/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/etuk-ubong-africa-today/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/etuk-ubong-a</span><span class="invisible">frica-today/</span></a></p><p>Reflecting the urgency of his messages, Etuk Ubong’s fast-paced channelling of Afrobeat, highlife, and jazz – encompassing echoes of Ellingtonian intricacy, blue period Miles, Coltrane transcendence, the roots rebirth of Masekela – all inspired by the ancestral ever-presence of Ekombi ritual drumming, creates a unique confluence of musical and spiritual questing. [...]</p><p><a href="/tags/highlife/" rel="tag">#Highlife</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/nigeria/" rel="tag">#Nigeria</a> <a href="/tags/afrobeat/" rel="tag">#AfroBeat</a></p>
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<p>Island Jazz from the Indian Ocean</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/island-jazz-indian-ocean/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/island-jazz-indian-ocean/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/island-jazz-</span><span class="invisible">indian-ocean/</span></a></p><p>Island Jazz Feat. Monika Njava (voice – the Diva of Madagascar) & Linley Marthe (bass – Mauritius)</p><p>Manipule-Nareo: the song recounts the manipulation and crimes committed by foreigners during the colonial period.</p><p>“The Island Jazz quartet reworks traditional melodies with modern harmonies. And twists irresistible rhythms like tsapiky and jihe into [...]</p><p><a href="/tags/indianocean/" rel="tag">#IndianOcean</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/madagascar/" rel="tag">#Madagascar</a> <a href="/tags/mauritius/" rel="tag">#Mauritius</a> <a href="/tags/afrojazz/" rel="tag">#AfroJazz</a></p>
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<p>Soriba Kouyate – Kanakassi (1999)</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/soriba-kouyate-kanakassi-1999/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/soriba-kouyate-kanakassi-1999/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/soriba-kouya</span><span class="invisible">te-kanakassi-1999/</span></a></p><p>Soriba Kouyate was a Senegalese Kora virtuoso (Korafola). Just before his death in 2010, he played in the Kora Jazz Band, after Djeli Moussa Diawara left the Kora Jazz Trio.</p><p>He played with musicians like Youssou N’Dour, Salif Keita, Peter Gabriel, Dizzy Gillespie, Harry Belafonte, Toure Kunda, etc.</p><p><a href="/tags/fullalbum/" rel="tag">#FullAlbum</a> <a href="/tags/kora/" rel="tag">#Kora</a> <a href="/tags/sénégal/" rel="tag">#Sénégal</a> <a href="/tags/afrojazz/" rel="tag">#AfroJazz</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a></p>
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<p>Coltrane Quartet – Africa/Brass</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/coltrane-quartet-africa-brass/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/coltrane-quartet-africa-brass/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/coltrane-qua</span><span class="invisible">rtet-africa-brass/</span></a></p><p>Africa/Brass is the eighth studio album by jazz musician John Coltrane (Coltrane Quartet), released on Impulse! Records on September 1, 1961.</p><p>Its big band sound, with the unusual instrumentation of French horns and euphonium, presented music very different from anything that had been associated with Coltrane to date.</p><p><a href="/tags/60smusic/" rel="tag">#60smusic</a> <a href="/tags/fullalbum/" rel="tag">#FullAlbum</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a></p>
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<p>Remembering Pharoah Sanders</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/pharoah-sanders-africa/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/pharoah-sanders-africa/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/pharoah-sand</span><span class="invisible">ers-africa/</span></a></p><p>Africa is an album led by saxophonist Pharoah Sanders (born Farrell Sanders; October 13, 1940 – September 24, 2022), recorded in 1987.</p><p><a href="/tags/80smusic/" rel="tag">#80smusic</a> <a href="/tags/fullalbum/" rel="tag">#FullAlbum</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a></p>
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<p>Hugh Masekela – Grazing in the Grass (live)</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/hugh-masekela-grazing-grass/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/hugh-masekela-grazing-grass/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/hugh-masekel</span><span class="invisible">a-grazing-grass/</span></a></p><p>Grazing in the Grass for the Fifa Worldcup closing ceremony in 2010. For those who like a lot of cowbells in their music…</p><p>The song is found on Masekela‘s 8th studio album: “The Promise of a Future” in 1968. […]</p><p><a href="/tags/hughmasekela/" rel="tag">#HughMasekela</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/livemusic/" rel="tag">#LiveMusic</a> <a href="/tags/southafrica/" rel="tag">#SouthAfrica</a> <a href="/tags/afrojazz/" rel="tag">#AfroJazz</a></p>
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<p>Dowdelin Feat. Pat Kalla – Funky Chicken</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/dowdelin-pat-kalla-funky-chicken/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/dowdelin-pat-kalla-funky-chicken/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/dowdelin-pat</span><span class="invisible">-kalla-funky-chicken/</span></a></p><p>“Dowdelin explores as a tireless ever moving trailbazer a path where Creole jazz, electronic dancefloor sounds and Caribbean percussions come together to create a unique Future Kréol feeling.”</p><p><a href="/tags/antilles/" rel="tag">#Antilles</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/electro/" rel="tag">#Electro</a></p>
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<p>Group Theory Black Music</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/tumi-mogorosi-group-theory-black-music/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/tumi-mogorosi-group-theory-black-music/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/tumi-mogoros</span><span class="invisible">i-group-theory-black-music/</span></a></p><p>“The Group Theory Black Music” documentary follows the creative process, and intentions between drummer Tumi Mogorosi and the many collaborators on the album.</p><p>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, [...]</p><p><a href="/tags/documentary/" rel="tag">#Documentary</a> <a href="/tags/livemusic/" rel="tag">#LiveMusic</a> <a href="/tags/southafrica/" rel="tag">#SouthAfrica</a> <a href="/tags/afrojazz/" rel="tag">#AfroJazz</a> <a href="/tags/avantgarde/" rel="tag">#AvantGarde</a> <a href="/tags/opera/" rel="tag">#Opera</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a></p>
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<p>Batsumi (1974)</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/batsumi-apartheid/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/batsumi-apartheid/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/batsumi-apar</span><span class="invisible">theid/</span></a></p><p>Many years after the fall of Apartheid, Batsumi remains sublime… and transformative, and its resonance hasn’t faded at all over the years.</p><p>During the brutal era in South African history known as Apartheid, the minority-white ruling party forcibly moved millions of black South Africans from their homes to segregated areas, stripping them of their citizenship […]</p><p><a href="/tags/70smusic/" rel="tag">#70smusic</a> <a href="/tags/apartheid/" rel="tag">#Apartheid</a> <a href="/tags/fullalbum/" rel="tag">#FullAlbum</a> <a href="/tags/southafrica/" rel="tag">#SouthAfrica</a> <a href="/tags/afrojazz/" rel="tag">#AfroJazz</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a></p>
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<p>Abdullah Ibrahim – Cape Town Flower</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/abdullah-ibrahim-cape-town-flower/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/abdullah-ibrahim-cape-town-flower/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/abdullah-ibr</span><span class="invisible">ahim-cape-town-flower/</span></a></p><p>Abdullah Ibrahim’s live rendition of his composition “Cape Town Flower.”</p><p>This was filmed in 1999 at the Lugano Jazz Festival.<br>From his album released in 1997 “Cape Town Flowers.”</p><p>Cape Town Flowers is an enchanting effort from Abdullah Ibrahim, finding the pianist in a trio setting performing 11 original compositions.</p><p><a href="/tags/abdullahibrahim/" rel="tag">#AbdullahIbrahim</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/southafrica/" rel="tag">#SouthAfrica</a> <a href="/tags/afrojazz/" rel="tag">#AfroJazz</a></p>
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<p>Mwandishi Sextet Project</p><p>Afrofuturism & psychedelism in the 70s, with Herbie Hancock.</p><p><a href="https://www.didiermary.fr/mwandishi-sextet-project/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.didiermary.fr/mwandishi-sextet-project/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.didiermary.fr/mwandishi-se</span><span class="invisible">xtet-project/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/english/" rel="tag">#English</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/livemusic/" rel="tag">#LiveMusic</a></p>
<p>Manu Dibango – Electric Africa</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/manu-dibango-electric-africa/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/manu-dibango-electric-africa/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/manu-dibango</span><span class="invisible">-electric-africa/</span></a></p><p>Released in 1985, Electric Africa is an album with Herbie Hancock, Wally Badarou & Mory Kante, produced by Bill Laswell. […]</p><p><a href="/tags/80smusic/" rel="tag">#80smusic</a> <a href="/tags/afrofunk/" rel="tag">#AfroFunk</a> <a href="/tags/cameroon/" rel="tag">#Cameroon</a> <a href="/tags/fullalbum/" rel="tag">#FullAlbum</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/manudibango/" rel="tag">#ManuDibango</a> <a href="/tags/afrojazz/" rel="tag">#AfroJazz</a> <a href="/tags/herbiehancock/" rel="tag">#HerbieHancock</a></p>
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<p>Herbie Tsoaeli</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/herbie-tsoaeli/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/herbie-tsoaeli/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/herbie-tsoae</span><span class="invisible">li/</span></a></p><p>The quintessential South African jazz man, Herbie Tsoaeli is a largely self-taught bass virtuoso from Nyanga East, in Cape Town – one of the more politically charged black locations in the Western Cape.</p><p>Coming from this community at the forefront of producing South Africa’s rich jazz legacy, rooted in his biographical experiences, his music is a […]</p><p><a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/southafrica/" rel="tag">#SouthAfrica</a> <a href="/tags/afrojazz/" rel="tag">#AfroJazz</a></p>
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<p>Kokoroko – Baba Ayoola</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/kokoroko-baba-ayoola/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/kokoroko-baba-ayoola/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/kokoroko-bab</span><span class="invisible">a-ayoola/</span></a></p><p>“Baba Ayoola,” released in November 2020, was written as a tribute to the grandfather of Kokoroko’s alto saxophonist Cassie Kinoshi and is “an invitation to celebrate life.”<br>It’s their their first single since the sublime “Carry Me Home” in February of the same year.</p><p>Opening with the elevating vocal harmonies of the front women, Sheila, […]</p><p><a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a></p>
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<p>Nina Simone – Liberian Calypso</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/nina-simone-liberian-calypso/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/nina-simone-liberian-calypso/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/nina-simone-</span><span class="invisible">liberian-calypso/</span></a></p><p>Nina Simone (1933 – 2003), here playing “Liberian Calypso,” which was inspired by her stay in the West African country from 1974 to 1977.</p><p>In this song, she revisits “Run Joe” from the album “Miss Calypso” by Maya Angelou released in 1957.</p><p><a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/liberia/" rel="tag">#Liberia</a> <a href="/tags/livemusic/" rel="tag">#LiveMusic</a></p>
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