- artist:Fra Fra Sound (7tet)
- featured artist:18
- release year:1999
- style(s):Afro, Jazz
- country:Netherlands
- formats:CD (Compact Disc)
- record posted by:Samponé Music Productions
- label:Pramisi Records
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With Mali Jazz, a tribute to Mailan music, Vincent Henar, bandleader of Fra Fra Sound, 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. Particularly Bamako, the capital of Mali, boasts great improvisers who can give voice to long musical stories, based on sparse material ans pentatonic melodies of four to five notes. Here the music is not dominated by percussion, but by vocals and melodic instruments such as the violin, kora,kamal ngoni (youth's harp) and the ngoni lute. Hence it is no surprise that famous vocalists and musicians like Salif Keita, Habib Koite, Oumou Sangare and Ali Farka Toure are residing here.
This CD is the result of Fra Fra Sound's 1997 tour in West Africa and a memorable concert in Bamako: intriguing improvisations, spiritually dynamic vocals and a universal kind of swing.
Musicians:
Andro Biswane - guitar
Guno Kramer - drums
Gregory Kranenburg - drums
Vincent Henar - bass
Mark Milan - piano
Efraïm Trujulli - tenor saxophone
Michael Simon - trumpet
Carlo Ulrichi - percussion
Djibril Camara - bass
Keletigui Diabaté - balafon
Toumani Diabaté - kora
Thomas 'Akuru'Dyani - percussion
Graham Haynes - cornet
Moussa 'Vieux' Kanté - kamal ngoni
Basekou Kouyaté - ngoni
Lansiné 'Lasana' Kouyaté - balafon
Danie Moreno - percussion
Cheikh Tidiane Seck - keyboards, percussion, vocals