I live by jazz pianists. My favorite musician is Abdullah Ibrahim. And I love Oscar Peterson. This album arrived, digitally remastered, in the mail today. Here you can hear the title track, recorded live in New York City, in 1982.
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Music: Oscar Peterson’s ‘Nigerian Marketplace’
Posted in jazz, Music, tagged jazz, Music, Nigerian Marketplace, Oscar Peterson on May 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Good music on Thursdays
Posted in jazz, Music, South Africa, tagged Add new tag, jazz, Music, Robbie Jansen on May 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In December 2006 I visited Cape Town with my wife and new daughter. I bought some music and books, mailed it back to New York City. I looked out for it for a while, then gave up. This week I got a note from the post office to pick up a big box. I won’t [...]
Hugh Masekela is apparently ‘a mischievous, but dignified imp’
Posted in Gustavo Dudamel, Hugh Masekela, imp, jazz, Music on December 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The South African trumpeter — despite his exceptional output — is often derided in (elitist and purist) jazz circles as a crossover artist. Ironically, as Simon Jenkins in the UK Guardian suggests in a colorful review of a Masekela concert in London, Masekela may have finally find his home doing exactly that; and with classical [...]
Specialists In All Styles
Posted in jazz, m'balax, Music, Orchestra Baobab on November 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
David Honigmann in the Financial Times on Orchestra Baobab, the masters of Senegalese music throughout the 1970s until they were dethroned by m’balax and Youssouh N’Dour in the 1980s. The band had a comeback of sorts in 2001 when they released an album again for the first time in 15 years, and now will release [...]
Sathima goes digital
Posted in jazz, Johnny Gertze, Makhaya Ntsoko, Morning in Paris, Music on October 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Last week Sathima Bea Benjamin, the South African jazz singer and one of my favorite artists, turned 71. To celebrate her record company reissued her classic 1963 recording A Morning in Paris — that she had recorded with Duke Ellington, pianist Billy Strayhorn, her husband Dollar Brand (now Abdullah Ibrahim), bassist Johnny Gertze and drummer [...]
Not Strictly About Africa
Posted in hip hop, jazz, Music, Not Strictly About Africa, photography, popular culture on October 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This one’s for music nerds. Wax Poetics (Issue 25, October/November 2007) ‘The Photo Issue,’ just arrived fresh in the mail. From the magazine’s website: Miles Davis is not only featured on our cover but is also the feature article: writer Tom Terrell speaks with Michael Henderson, Pete Cosey, and Mtume, Miles’s funky rhythm section for [...]
Events: Bushveld in Harlem
Posted in film, jazz, South Africa on September 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
‘African Noise Foundation is proud to announce the selection of a South African documentary production for screening in the prestigious Columbia University Columbia Harlem Festival of Global Jazz Documentary Film. The 29 September screening will be preceded by a concert of the Zim Ngqawana Quartet on 28 September.Unyazi of the Bushveld (2007). Aryan Kaganof, director [...]
R.I.P. Max Roach
Posted in jazz, Max Roach, Music on August 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The jazz drummer, Max Roach, died last week. In 1977 Roach recorded an album with South African-born pianist (and my favorite musician) Abdullah Ibrahim. In tribute of Roach, I copied below the 2003 Downbeat review of their great collaboration: “… Originally released in 1977 on the Bay State label, Streams Of Consciousness is a classic, [...]
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