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Afropop Worldwide | New Moves in Afro-Jazz


Africa Today
(Night Dreamer, B086Y5P9DW) (
first 13 seconds, then to bed)
GEORGES: WE’RE HEARING NIGERIAN TRUMPETER AND COMPOSER ETUK UBONG FROM HIS 2020 RELEASE
AFRICA TODAY, RECORDED DIRECT TO DISC IN THE NETHERLANDS. ETUK IS PART OF A POWERFUL MOVEMENT OF ARTISTS FUSING JAZZ AND AFRICAN MUSIC IN NEW WAYS.
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Etuk-Africa.wav: Trust me, what made Hugh Masekela who he is? It was because when Hugh Masekela got to America, the likes of Coltrane, the likes of Miles Davis and Art Blakey told him, You need to play
African
jazz, man. You need to reflect Africa.” And then Hugh Masekela becomes great automatically. With my kind of music, it s just about the culture. It doesn t sound like pop. It doesn t sound like rap music. It sounds like Africa. ....

Burkina Faso , United States , University Of Cape Town , Western Cape , South Africa , Temple Mountain , Bruxelles Capitale , Cross River , Ekpo Mmommom , Roy Chicago , Baaba Maal , Etuk Ubong , Art Blakey , Hugh Masekela , Rex Lawson , Michael Wimberly , Guillaume Van Parys , Mansour Seck , I Waka Dey , Doromin Kelen , Victor Olaiya , Miles Davis , Clifford Brown , John Coltrane , Ekpo Mommomm , Abdoulaye Ndiaye ,