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Peter Gabriel & Sinead O'Connor, Don't Give Up [Live]

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Usually is a duet recorded by Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush for Gabriel's album So. The single version spent eleven weeks in the UK Top 75 chart in 1986, peaking at number nine. It describes the despair of a man who feels that the economic system has n…

Herbie Hancock, Carlos Santana & Angelique Kidjo, Safiatou

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Who does not know Carlos Santana and his variety in his guitar music, his band "Santana" but his attendance by so many other top musicians like Michael Babatunde "Baba" Olatunji, or here with Herbie Hancock and the West African jazz singer Angelique…
JB Mpiana, Ndombolo

JB Mpiana, Ndombolo

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JB Mpiana are artistes among them Papa Wemba, Koffi Olomide, JB Mpiana, Werra son, Bill Clinton, Tutu Callugi, etc. Describing the music of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is difficult, due to vagaries surrounding the meanings of various terms.…

Asa (Asha), Jailer

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Asa is the great jazz- and soul singer recovering in 2008. She was born in Paris. Her early life in the City of Light left the little girl with only the vaguest of (happy) memories, since she was no more than two years old when her family returned t…

Tito Puente, Take Five

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"Take Five" is a classic jazz piece first recorded by the Dave Brubeck Quartet and released on its 1959 album Time Out. This version is sampled by Tito Puente, "The King of Latin Music". He is best known for dance-oriented mambo and Latin jazz compo…

Duyên Quan ho, Dân ea Quan Bác Ninh

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this is the original music I heard in Hanoi/Vietnam in Quoc Tu Giam (National University) March 2003.
Balinese Gamelan

Balinese Gamelan

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Gamelan is a term for various types of orchestra played on Bali. It is the main element of the Balinese traditional music. Each gamelan is slightly different from the other; however, they all have the same organization, which based on different ins…

Aly Keïta - Hommage

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Balafoon.jpg/800px-Balafoon.jpg Aly Keïta was born 1969 in Abidjan / Ivory Coast. He plays an instrument called Balafone simular to a Xylofone and mixes the folk and jazz music. First I met hi…
Fong Naam, Mor lam, Wind In The Coconut In Trees

Fong Naam, Mor lam, Wind In The Coconut In Trees

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Fong Naam Mor lam is the dominant folk music of Thailand's north-eastern Isaan region, which has a mainly Lao population. It has much in common with luk thung, such as its focus on the life of the rural poor. It is characterized by rapid-fire, rhythm…
Eddie Palmieri, Listen Here

Eddie Palmieri, Listen Here

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Eddie Palmieri (*15.Dec.1936), is a Puerto Rican-American pianist, bandleader and musician, best known for combining jazz piano and instrumental solos with Latin rhythms. The track "Listen Here" is a composition from Eddie Harris who creited this ma…

Chucho Valdés, El Rumbón (The Party)

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Chucho Valdés (*9th of October 1941), born Jesús Dionisio Valdés, is a Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger. He was born in Quivicán, Cuba. In 1972 he founded the group Irakere, one of Cuba's best-known Latin jazz bands. Together with pia…
Foo Foo, Carlos Santana

Foo Foo, Carlos Santana

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Who does not know Carlos Santana? He is one of the most known guitar player and an all round musician, playing many kinds of music, like Afro-Jazz (with Babatunde Olatunji), but known as best with his group Santana. Carlos Augusto Santana Alves was b…
Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi, Wasakara

Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi, Wasakara

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Tuku has been heavily influenced by chimurenga, the genre pioneered by Mapfumo that is inspired by the hypnotic rhythms of the mbira (thumb piano). However chimurenga is just one of many styles performed by Tuku, as his music also incorporates pop i…
Don Ellis Big Band, Bulgarian Bulg

Don Ellis Big Band, Bulgarian Bulg

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The New Don Ellis Band Goes Underground is strikingly inconsistent with the adjacent Ellis Orchestra releases. However, the recording foreshadows Ellis's commercialized approach to selections appearing on several of his later recordings. This track…

Mongo Santamaria, Este Mambo

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Ramón "Mongo" Santamaría (*7th of April 1917 in Havana, Cuba – †1st of February, 2003) was an Afro-Cuban Latin jazz percussionist. He is most famous for being the composer of the jazz standard "Afro Blue," recorded by John Coltrane among others. In 1…
Don Ellis Big Band, Turkish Bath

Don Ellis Big Band, Turkish Bath

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The following three music documents I'll remind to the great jazz big band master Don Ellis who gave the history an outstanding note. He diet - much to young - 1978 in the age of 44. Don Ellis is probably best remembered for his work as a big band j…

Manu Dibango, Pata Pata

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Nearly every body knows the song Pata Pata which is a original folk song from South Africa, Miriam Makeba*s (†10.11.2008) version Pata Pata is the most famous one. Here I post an other version from the group Manu Dibango. Manu Dibango, born Emmanuel…

Kool & The Gang, Let's Go Dancing

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Kool & The Gang found a special sound at the unique intersection of jazz, r&b, funk and pop. Their music has been created by the same core of players for over thirty years: Robert "Kool" Bell, his brother Khalis Bayyan, their longtime friends Dennis…

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