is it weird that it is only tuesday and i am already planning my weekend? probably not that weird huh.. especially when it promises to be so so good. ive already touched upon the wondrous modular christmas party which is happening on saturday (tix still available here ), but i havent yet sprouted any excitement about the effervescent darshan jesrani , who will donning the dance commander hard-hat...
Angelique Kidjo gets the party started in South Africa for the World Cup. She will be performing at the World Cup draw. I saw her perform twelve years ago for the first time in a Manhattan club where she...
OK, I know it is only a few days since my last Seminal Album but this one is exciting. Well it is exciting for me. The album is 1982's World Music pioneer release from King Sunny Adé And His African Beats and it is called Ju Ju Music . OK, there had been African musicians in the western eye before; Fela Kuti, Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makebo, Manu Dibango etc, but this was a new departure for Island...
The first ever winner of the British Academy of Songwriters and Composers Jazz Award for Contemporary Jazz Composition is......... Jason Yarde. First with the story was Jazzwise. Follow this link for more details. Timing, you might say. The London Symphony Orchestra/ Hugh Masekela concert next Thursday at the Barbican will feature two of his compositions. Sold out, returns only.
Zenzile Miriam Makeba was born in Johannesburg in 1932. Her mother was a Swazi and her father, who died when she was six, was a Xhosa. As a child, she sang at the Kilmerton Training Institute in Pretoria, which she attended for eight years.
There wasn't much on at the cinema this weekend, so I was tempted to go and see the apocalyptic disaster movie 2012, even though it's dubbed into French. However, having read the 2012 reviews, I decided to go and see...
The Playing For Change crowd comes to town next week (see Calendar) and we'll celebrate with music from the groundbreaking global CD as well as other world music of change. Our apologies for the lack of a podcast of last week's show -- we had insurmountable technical difficulties (which will NOT be repeated). Thanks for your understanding. World Music of Change: Spin The Globe playlist for 13 November...
Competition: Thanks to Eureka Entertainment we have 3 copies of Soul Power on Blu-ray Disc plus a fetching film t-shirt depicting the iconic Zaire 74 concert to give away. All you have to do is answer the simple question below to be in with a chance of winning th...
I was surprised to find that four of the nearly 500 pop OHWs from 1949 till 1968 (I chose 60) were South African: Skokiaan, The Lion Sleeps Tonight, Miriam Makeba's Pata Pata and now - Hugh Masekela's Grazing In the Grass Jeannie C. Riley - Harper Valley P.T.A. Casuals - Jesamine And finally the ridiculous: Tiny Tim - Tip-Toe Through The Tulips With Me
CD REVIEW various artists: Jazz Around the World (Putumayo) World Torch? Global Nightclub? There's got to be a better title for this disc, which may fall under the broad umbrella of "jazz," but is certainly a narrow slice of the global jazz available today. Granted, Putumayo are playing to the audience they've built up with their relatively smooth, accessible series of CDs, and the included...
Jazz Around the World Release Date: October 27, 2009 (International release dates vary) Jazz with a global twist! Original songs and jazz standards performed by musicians from Cuba to Cameroon. FEATURED ARTISTS: Chantal Chamberland Niuver Blick Bassy Kora Jazz Trio Heather Rigdon Kad Sherele Kataraina Pipi Kltigui Diabat with Habib Koit and Bamada Billy Cobham and Asere Hugh Masekela feat. Malaika...
When we got our first UHF commercial station here in the Cincinnati area in 1968, WXIX-TV, it did not broadcast on weekends except in the evenings. For a brief period in 1970, however, they offered a unique experiment which I believe to have been a syndicated package offered to other such stations around the country. It was called THE MUSIC CONNECTION and pre-saged MTV as well as those high cable all-music...
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