If anyone doubted the stature of Roy Hargrove, then the glittering Jazz at Lincoln Center tribute, complete with five hours of music, two hundred musicians and a procession of stars was a proportionate homage to his extravagant oeuvre and his thirty-year career. The night on Tuesday, January 8 was in keeping with the late trumpeter’s image: few words, lots of music.
Hermeto Pascoal e sua Visão Original do Forró was recorded in 1999 but remained unreleased until this year. The legendary o Broxo magnifies tradition while displaying dizzying instrumental sophistication.
The Cameroonian saxophonist Manu Dibango, who turned Eighty-Five in December 2018, was an essential figure in breaking down barriers to African music, particularly thanks to the international success of "Soul Makossa," in 1972. Here, he reveals his journey, moving between jazz, rumba, funk and reggae, crossing paths with Sidney Bechet, Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, Bob Marley and Mohamed Ali along the way, as well as General de Gaulle, Emperor Bokassa and notions of Pan-Africanism. For this long-form interview, we begin at the beginning: at the foot of Mount Cameroon, 1933.
Radars had been buzzing since the discovery of Los Ángeles (2017), a debut album produced by Raül Refree, which featured flamenco and R&B imagery from the CANADA collective's videos.
Raised in Minas Gerais, the singer, composer, and co-founder of the Clube da Esquina in Belo Horizonte helped invent sophisticated Brazilian Popular Music (MPB), while being nurtured by the best international musicians, with Wayne Shorter at the top of the list.
From Kinshasa to Paris, from rumba to jazz, from Stewart Copeland to the Gnawas of Essaouira … A look back on the septuagenarian pianist’s life, in which he has continually surpassed himself, after the release of his new record, Transcendance.
Founder of RH Factor, composer of "Strasbourg Saint-Denis": the trumpeter hailing from Texas has passed at the age of 49.
Everybody loves Milton Nascimento. From Björk to Tortoise and his compatriots Marco Valle, Chico Buarque, Airto Moreira and many others. His music is frequently sung by great artists.
In September 2018, Milton Nascimento released A Festa (Universal Music). "One of the great ambitions of my life has always been to launch a project where my songs are re-interpreted with more of an acoustic emphasis. The moment has finally arrived.”
Living in France, the Malagasy is the ambassador of trance music, where electric guitars meet zebu skin percussion. Sleep is not an option!
