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john.brown_typeface 17h ago

Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah - Golden Crown [Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah – Xodokan Nation] (2023)
https://youtu.be/UWCQzVyXLxM

#Music #ChristianScott #Jazz #AfroJazz #NewOrleans

Golden Crown (Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah – Xodokan Nation)

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African Music Forum (AMF)3d ago

Prince K. Musarurwa – Nyamatsatse

https://amf.didiermary.fr/prince-kudakwashe-musarurwa-nyamatsatse/

RIP Prince K. Musarurwa (December 5, 1988 – February 15, 2020), also known simply as Prince, who was a Zimbabwean African Jazz singer, songwriter and producer. He played the guitar and mbira.
“Nyamatsatse” was released on his last album before his death at 31.

Musarurwa was born and raised in Zimbabwe. His career began within the […]

#Jazz #Mbira #Zimbabwe #AfroJazz

African Music Forum (AMF)Mar 7

Mehdi Laifaoui – Sidi El Hakem

https://amf.didiermary.fr/mehdi-laifaoui-sid-el-hakem/

Mehdi Laifaoui is an Algerian author, composer and performer. His repertoire includes original compositions and some revisited Rai standards of the 70s and 80s. His music mixes Bedouin and Trab modes, a pentatonic music that gives Algerian Rai music its uniquely African flavour.

Listen to his “Opus & Trab Project,” a repertoire rooted in the […]

#Algeria #Jazz #LiveMusic #AfroJazz

African Music Forum (AMF)Feb 20

Nalbandian The Ethiopian

https://amf.didiermary.fr/nalbandian-ethiopian-ethiopiques-32/

“Nalbandian The Ethiopian, Either/Orchestra and Guests” is the second album (Ethiopiques 32) coming out from the “relaunch” of the Ethiopiques series, released last december. It follows “Muluken Mellesse With The Dahlak Band” (Ethiopiques 31).

#Ethiojazz #Ethiopia #Jazz #LiveMusic #AfroJazz

African Music Forum (AMF)Feb 18

One Night in Pelican

https://amf.didiermary.fr/one-night-pelican/

“One Night in Pelican” is a compilation that features all the key groups and players of a special time and place. It captures the musical dreams escaping from Soweto’s first nightclub.

Ten seminal tracks journeying through Jazz, Funk, Fusion and Disco, detailing the incredible story and sounds behind the Soweto nightclub during the height of […]

#70smusic #AfroFunk #Apartheid #Jazz #SoulJazz #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz

African Music Forum (AMF)Feb 12

Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O – Umdali

https://amf.didiermary.fr/malcolm-jiyane-tree-o-umdali/

A generous sideman and bandleader, multi-instrumentalist Malcolm Jiyane stands at the vanguard of his prodigious generation of jazz musicians. Operating from the centre and the fringes of the South African jazz scene, the trombonist (and pianist) is an enigmatic yet charismatic galvaniser of his contemporaries, able to put them through their paces in his own […]

#Jazz #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz

African Music Forum (AMF)Feb 12

Kokoroko – We Give Thanks

https://amf.didiermary.fr/kokoroko-we-give-thanks/

8-piece band Kokoroko released their long-awaited debut album “Could We Be More” in August 2022.

Could We Be More is an expansive and ambitious album that speaks to the force of Kokoroko.

Each song possesses the energy which so naturally underpins the heartbeat of Kokoroko’s identity – deftly moving through afrobeat, highlife, soul, and funk across […]

#Jazz #AfroJazz #Afrobeat

African Music Forum (AMF)Feb 10

Oneness of Juju – Poo Too

https://amf.didiermary.fr/oneness-of-juju-poo-too/

Plunky & Oneness of Juju is the name of a rhythm & blues-African-jazz-funk band from Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A.

The group, originally known as Juju, was founded in San Francisco in 1971 and has continued to evolve for over 30 years, performing and recording with changes in personnel and under different group names, but always led […]

#AfroFunk #Jazz #AfroJazz