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  • aka Calum Da Jazbo
    Late member
    • Nov 2010
    • 9173

    JLU 16.v.11 Tasty ...

    Claire Martin meets Mulatu Astatke, appearing at this year's Brighton Festival. Vibraphone and keyboard player as well as master arranger, Astatke is one of the all-time greats of Ethiopian music and the creator of his own original art form - Ethio-jazz. He pioneered his signature fusion of Western jazz and traditional Ethiopian melodies in New York in the late 1960s, before returning to 'Swinging Addis' at the end of the decade where he became a pivotal figure in its music evolution. In recent years he has found a whole new audience.

    Kevin Le Gendre returns to feature a disc that may not have hit the "Big Time" on its first release. This time he chooses Leon Parker's CD, "Awakening".
    Music in session comes from British pianists Nikki Isles and Kate Williams recorded at Pizza Express Jazz Club, Soho in London during its recent Steinway Festival.
    .. JLU doesn't get more interesting than this week ...
    According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.
  • Byas'd Opinion

    #2
    Looks good. Pity the programme's web page gets Nikki Iles' name wrong, and gives two different spellings for Mulatu Astatke's surname (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0112d05).

    OK, I know I'm being picky, but it makes the BBC look sloppy and unprofessional.

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    • aka Calum Da Jazbo
      Late member
      • Nov 2010
      • 9173

      #3
      that look reflects their work .... still i'm not one to talk ....
      According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

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      • aka Calum Da Jazbo
        Late member
        • Nov 2010
        • 9173

        #4
        the first track is stonkingly good; a review of Marius Nesset's Golden Xplosion


        some music is meant for live performance innit ... the Clarke Tracy Seven Steps would be great in a club and the Leon Parker would be great in a smallish concert hall [Phoenix in Leicester say] but the Tracy would wear out fast on repeated cd listening and the vocals .. ok live ... would drive me nuts on the Leon Parker cd .. great groove though ... [surely must have been sampled a zillion times in the electrogroove industry?]

        ..Leon Parker is a major talent, alive and well and living in France ... an appreciation here and here he is on a full kit live in 2009 in St Chamond and here in a quartet many thanks to Mr Legendre for telling us about this artist ...
        Last edited by aka Calum Da Jazbo; 16-05-11, 09:41.
        According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

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        • aka Calum Da Jazbo
          Late member
          • Nov 2010
          • 9173

          #5
          Byas'd it took less than five minutes to search Google and Youtube for Leon Parker ... so all the professed ignorance by Legendre & Martin was what? faux or just slip shod gliding past the idea of working for a living ...
          According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

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