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kora jazz band - kora jazz band & guests - celluloid - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Jazz

1. All Blues
2. Banekh
3. Madiba
4. Oyé Como Va
5. Catarina
6. Kuma
7. Spain
8. Mandjou

After producing three albums as a trio, the Kora Jazz Band has doubled its numbers and taken on Manu Dibango, Andy Narell and Omar Marquez for its latest collection !

It was in the West of Africa, in Dakar, that the Kora Jazz Trio sprung up, initiated by Abdoulaye Diabaté. "At the time I was leading the National Orchestra of Senegal with 66 musicians,” reminisces the pianist, who was already attracted to jazz and spent many a night playing the piano in a big hotel. “Jazz didn’t come straight from my world, I used to play by repeating what I’d heard. I don’t think I understood all the notions of harmony, counterpoint and improvisation,” he now admits. “It was only later, when I won a French grant to study music at the CIM* in Paris that I got a chance to really get to the depths of it."