Beside Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, Herbie Hancock, Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim), Michel Petrucciani and Oscar Peterson, Randy Weston is one my favorite jazz piano player and composer.
After contributing six decades of musical direction and genius…
Mongolian throat singing is unique on the world. This overtone singing, also known as overtone chanting, or harmonic singing, is a type of singing in which the singer manipulates the resonances (or formants) created as air travels from the lungs, pas…
The dialog between Zappa and the Devil - listen it!
It was the blackest night
There was no moon in sight
You know the stars ain't shinin'
'Cause the sky's too tight
I heard the scarey wind
I seen some ugly trees
There was a werewolf honkin'
'Long th…
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…
Elvis Crespo is born on 30th of July 1971), and is a Puerto Rican-American Grammy Award and Latin Grammy Winner. Crespo who sings Merengue music was named "Elvis" after Elvis Presley.
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…
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…
"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…
"Chan Chan" is a son composition by Cuban bandleader Compay Segundo, revolving around two central characters, 'Juanica' and 'Chan Chan'. The song was one of Compay's last compositions and was written in 1987. "Chan Chan" was recorded by Segundo himse…
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…
David Byrne (*14th of May 1952) is a Scottish-American musician and artist perhaps best known as a founding member and principal songwriter of the new wave band Talking Heads, which was active between 1974 and 1991.
Sierra Maestra are a Cuban band started in 1976. They sought to revive 1920's classic son, which came from the mountain range on the east of Cuba, after which the band was named.
I like to introduce a Malian well known folk musician I immediately got liked into his music style.
Habib Koité (b. 1958 in Mali) is an internationally-known Malian musician who sings and plays the guitar. His supporting cast, Bamada, is a super-grou…
I'm posting this song for my respectful memory of the great South African Lady Miriam Makeba, who in November 2008 died in the age of 76 years.
A word from the famous Indian film producer Anant Singh:
“We are deeply saddened by the death of Miriam…
I'm posting this song for my respectful memory of the great South African Lady Miriam Makeba, who died today in the age of 76 years.
South African singer Miriam Makeba, one of Africa's best known voices and a champion of the fight against apartheid,…
While Tuku’s music is undeniably contagious, it is his lyrics that have captured the hearts of his people. The words to his songs, performed in the Shona language of Zimbabwe as well as English, invariably deal with social and economic issues. In the…
Oliver Mtukudzi is the best-selling artist in his home country of Zimbabwe, Africa. Lovingly called "Tuku" for short, Oliver began recording in the mid-1970s as a member of Wagon Wheels, a band that also featured Thomas Mapfumo. After Wagon Wheels…
Asa was the only girl in the family and had to share her parents, not often present, with three brothers. At a tender age she began to look after the house during her father and mother’s frequent absences. That is when Asa started to sing. The desire…
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