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African Cookbook, A Vocal Tangent, A Dizzy Atmosphere

By David Brown | The Jazz Continuum
May 31, 2022
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This week, South African jazz artists to African sounds in jazz, a vocal tangent, and finally, a Dizzy atmosphere.

Playlist

Thelonious Monk

piano
1917 - 1982

" data-original-title="" title="">Thelonious Monk "Epistrophy (Theme)" from Live At The It Club (Complete) (Columbia) 00:15

Somi

vocals

" data-original-title="" title="">Somi "House of the Rising Sun" from Zenzile: The Reimagination of Miriam Makeba (Salon Africana) 01:50

Nduduzo Makhathini

keyboards
b.1982

" data-original-title="" title="">Nduduzo Makhathini "Amathongo" from In the Spirit of Ntu (Universal Music) 05:36

Omri Ziegele

saxophone, alto

" data-original-title="" title="">Omri Ziegele Where's Africa "Back Home" from The Hat (Intakt Records) 12:43

Bokani Dyer

piano

" data-original-title="" title="">Bokani Dyer "Ke Nako" from Indaba Is (Brownswood Recordings) 19:41

Abdullah Ibrahim

piano
b.1934

" data-original-title="" title="">Abdullah Ibrahim "Blue Bolero" from Solotude (Gearbox Records) 26:03

Ahmed Abdullah

trumpet
b.1947

" data-original-title="" title="">Ahmed Abdullah "African Songbird" from Ahmed Adbullah And The Solomonic Quintet (Silkheart) 36:12

Cheick Tidiane Seck

keyboards
b.1953

" data-original-title="" title="">Cheick Tidiane Seck "Niger Mambo" from Timbuktu, The Music of Randy Weston (Komos) 36:12

Randy Weston

piano
1926 - 2018

" data-original-title="" title="">Randy Weston "African Cookbook" from African Cookbook (Atlantic) 44:59

Booker Ervin

saxophone, tenor
1930 - 1970

" data-original-title="" title="">Booker Ervin "Number Two" from The Space Book (Prestige) 57:06

John Coltrane

saxophone
1926 - 1967

" data-original-title="" title="">John Coltrane and

Johnny Hartman

vocals
1923 - 1983

" data-original-title="" title="">Johnny Hartman "Lush Life" from John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman (Impulse!) 1:06:26

Anita O'Day

vocals
1919 - 2006

" data-original-title="" title="">Anita O'Day "Tea for Two" from At Mister Kelly's (Verve) 1:11:46

Jean Carne,

Adrian Younge

keyboards

" data-original-title="" title="">Adrian Younge &

Ali Shaheed Muhammad

bass

" data-original-title="" title="">Ali Shaheed Muhammad "People of the Sun" from Jazz is Dead 12 (Jazz is Dead) 1:15:42

George Burton

piano

" data-original-title="" title="">George Burton "Finding" from Rec��i��proc��i��ty (Inner Circle Music) 1:19:47

Cecile McLorin Salvant

vocals
b.1989

" data-original-title="" title="">Cecile McLorin Salvant "Until" from Ghost Song (Nonesuch) 1:23:23

Dizzy Gillespie

trumpet
1917 - 1993

" data-original-title="" title="">Dizzy Gillespie Quintet "Kush" from An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quinet (Verve) 1:30:55

Dave Douglas

trumpet
b.1963

" data-original-title="" title="">Dave Douglas "Cadillac" from Dizzy Atmosphere—Dizzy Gillespie At Zero Gravity (Greenleaf Music) 1:41:27

David Sanford

composer / conductor
b.1963

" data-original-title="" title="">David Sanford Big Band "Dizzy Atmosphere" from A Prayer for Lester Bowie (Greenleaf Music) 1:48:10

Blossom Dearie

piano and vocals
1926 - 2009

" data-original-title="" title="">Blossom Dearie "Everything I've Got" from Blossom Dearie (Verve) 1:54:40

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