Bembeya Jazz w/ Randy Weston's African Rhythms

[mdpm99]

Sunday, August 17, 3 p.m.
Bembeya Jazz w/ Randy Weston's African Rhythms

Guinean band Bembeya Jazz plays busy, buoyant Afro-pop revolving around four guitars and a big horn section employed as more than accent agents. The group's roots stretch back to the '60s, but, stoked perhaps by Orchestra Baobab's hailed return to the fray, the new Bembeya marks its first new album in 14 years. A mix of new songs and old material reconfigured, the album shifts between the horny Afrobeat simmer of Fela Kuti and lighter moods brushed by tight guitar squiggles that spread into a trance-inducing murmur. Provided the speakers don't lack the punch they have at some recent shows, Summerstage should be spilling with sound here, as Bembeya Jazz dusts off a legacy that sounds no less vital now. Opener Randy Weston's African Rhythms is a self-explanatorily named group built around Weston, an old-line jazz pianist who moved from R&B and bebop to African music in the '60s.

Central Park Summerstage

(212) 360-2777
Free

[kev]

Randy Weston for free? I love his albums :D
Y'all so lucky...

[C hristian]

i know! i know! And Jimmy Cliff this past weekend!

are you going?

[kev]

I live in San Fran (if you were talking to me). We had Cubanisimo in the park for free this past Sunday, but typical story of my life I found out about it the next day. Damn...

[samsfromkiribati]

Originally posted by david mancuso:
Sunday, August 17, 3 p.m.
Bembeya Jazz w/ Randy Weston's African Rhythms

Guinean band Bembeya Jazz plays busy, buoyant Afro-pop revolving around four guitars and a big horn section employed as more than accent agents. The group's roots stretch back to the '60s, but, stoked perhaps by Orchestra Baobab's hailed return to the fray, the new Bembeya marks its first new album in 14 years. A mix of new songs and old material reconfigured, the album shifts between the horny Afrobeat simmer of Fela Kuti and lighter moods brushed by tight guitar squiggles that spread into a trance-inducing murmur. Provided the speakers don't lack the punch they have at some recent shows, Summerstage should be spilling with sound here, as Bembeya Jazz dusts off a legacy that sounds no less vital now. Opener Randy Weston's African Rhythms is a self-explanatorily named group built around Weston, an old-line jazz pianist who moved from R&B and bebop to African music in the '60s.

Central Park Summerstage

(212) 360-2777
Free Mr Mancuso ,I'm happy to know Bembeya is coming back .It's a personal favorite ,and I love roots guinean music in general .I'm happy to see a character like writing about bembeya ,whereas this group ,in contrary to fela and his africa 70's,is fallen in the anonymity.
By the way,if you're interrested by good afro music from 60's and 70's ,a friend of mine is
the producer of primary works by some famous group from Senegal like Star band de Dakar (feat Youssou'n Dour),orchestre Baobab ,nigerian saxophoniste Dexter Johnson ,Keita fodeba...
He's got an amazing catalog ,which hi's reediting
on cd .In theory ,the first cd will come out in september 2003,with inedits.It wil be a cd with only works by star band de dakar feat youssou'n dour (youssou began in this group at 16,and it's
my friend who launched youssou,but since he left the group to join this horrible english guy whose I don't remember the name,who make ethno synthetic music ,He has no gratefulness for my friend).If you're interresting by these futurs cd
(they will come out in little quantity ,approximatively 1000 examplaries),check my pm.

[samsfromkiribati]

Originally posted by david mancuso:
Sunday, August 17, 3 p.m.
Bembeya Jazz w/ Randy Weston's African Rhythms

Guinean band Bembeya Jazz plays busy, buoyant Afro-pop revolving around four guitars and a big horn section employed as more than accent agents. The group's roots stretch back to the '60s, but, stoked perhaps by Orchestra Baobab's hailed return to the fray, the new Bembeya marks its first new album in 14 years. A mix of new songs and old material reconfigured, the album shifts between the horny Afrobeat simmer of Fela Kuti and lighter moods brushed by tight guitar squiggles that spread into a trance-inducing murmur. Provided the speakers don't lack the punch they have at some recent shows, Summerstage should be spilling with sound here, as Bembeya Jazz dusts off a legacy that sounds no less vital now. Opener Randy Weston's African Rhythms is a self-explanatorily named group built around Weston, an old-line jazz pianist who moved from R&B and bebop to African music in the '60s.

Central Park Summerstage

(212) 360-2777
Free Mr Mancuso ,I'm happy to know Bembeya is coming back .It's a personal favorite ,and I love roots guinean music in general .I'm happy to see a character like writing about bembeya ,whereas this group ,in contrary to fela and his africa 70's,is fallen in the anonymity.
By the way,if you're interrested by good afro music from 60's and 70's ,a friend of mine is
the producer of primary works by some famous group from Senegal like Star band de Dakar (feat Youssou'n Dour),orchestre Baobab ,nigerian saxophoniste Dexter Johnson ,Keita fodeba...
He's got an amazing catalog ,which hi's reediting
on cd .In theory ,the first cd will come out in september 2003,with inedits.It wil be a cd with only works by star band de dakar feat youssou'n dour (youssou began in this group at 16,and it's
my friend who launched youssou,but since he left the group to join this horrible english guy whose I don't remember the name,who make ethno synthetic music ,He has no gratefulness for my friend).If you're interresting by these futurs cd
(they will come out in little quantity ,approximatively 1000 examplaries),check my pm.