According to Njeddo Dewal, a Peulh folktale on the origins of the ethnic group, as told by Amadou Hampate Ba,...
Despite jazz’s being born to warm weather New Orleans, a city full of “elaborate wedding-cake ceilings, wide sliding doors, tall...
Dance to the beat of the mayflower drum. Sway with the lilting fluid guitar and chant with lungs full of...
In between Winter Jazzfest sets, I hurried through the slush and powder of New York City winter, in order to...
It might have been released close to the end of the year, but three months were more than enough to...
Today, black music is warmth, experimentation, crossbreeding, avant-garde, tradition, and rhythm. Turin’s Jazz Re:Found festival explores these definitions, with a...
In three weeks’ time, Aurelio will bring his soothing Garifuna sound to London. Yet, that won’t be the only treat...
What is a resonator? A resonator, according to a quick Google search, “produces a deep, full, reverberating sound.” A band...
Once upon a time, in a world no larger than a big ball, political music was often not as artistically...
It’s great to hear Kadialy Kouyate firmly back in his own Mandinka territory. This latest album Na Kitabo (My Book) by...
You’ll listen to this album so many times, that you’ll consume it. But when a work is so well rounded...
Songs mean the world. It’s especially the case when a singer, Calypso Rose, is the very first woman to perform...