- artist:Fra Fra Sound
- featured artist:Djibril Camara, Kletigui Diabaté, Toumani Diabaté, Thomas Dyani, Graham Haynes, Vieux Kanté, Basekou
- release year:1999
- country:Netherlands
- formats:CD (Compact Disc)
- record posted by:Fra Fra Sound
- label:Pramisi records
With 'Mali Jazz', a tribute to Malian music, Vincent Henar (bandleader FFS) divulges a secret. Through a cross-fertilization of African, Arabic, European and American influences, Mali has become one of the leading centres of the west african music culture.
On this album jazz and Mali, innovation and tradition, modern western and traditional African instruments are communicating with one another. Balafon, kora and kamal ngoni are some of the these traditional instruments that are mixed with piano, trumpet, bass a.o. on this album.