The black revolt began in the 1960s in the United States under the leadership of figures like Martin Luther King and Malcolm X is already bearing fruit with the accession to power of the first African-American president of the country’s history. Read the rest of this entry »
A recent jazz legends still alive, Archie Shepp, continues to drag his sax and his class on the road to Navarre. With his quartet of top-flight (Wayne Dockery, bass, Steve McCraven, drums and Tom McClung, piano), it gins parts of his latest opus anniversary ‘Gemini’. Read the rest of this entry »
Andy Bey nearly seventy years and this new album, recorded in May 1997 at Birdland in New York, will have waited ten years for land in the bins and immediately be among the best-selling jazz in the United States. Read the rest of this entry »
Bibi Tanga and Professor untiring duo form a prolific and original. Their music mixed start to talk about it since the release of their album ‘Yellow Gauze’ in 2007, and after a performance at the New Morning, they go on tour this summer. The opportunity for everyone to discover. Read the rest of this entry »
Arrived in Paris at the age of nine years, Bibi Tanga not slow to discover the greatest. Rocked by Bob Marley, James Brown, Sly and The Family Stone, Curtis Mayfield, Brassens, Brel and Ferré, he learned music theory and naturally enjoys the guitar, bass and saxophone. Read the rest of this entry »
Amateur groove in all its forms and black music, Bibi Tanga is an accomplished musician and pioneer new horizons. Inspired by James Brown, Sly Stone and Fela, Bibi Tanga releases first album in 2000 entitled ‘The Wind that blows. Read the rest of this entry »
After ‘Leggo de Lion’ (2007), first album whose output was combined with that of his third book ‘The African Origins of UFOs’, Anthony Joseph propose his successor in January 2009. On the ‘Bird’s Head’, the poet born in Trinidad offers a new set of songs between funk and gospel, recorded in the company of Spasm Band, his loyal group of Afro-jazz. Read the rest of this entry »
Like the “beat poets, like the ‘jazz prophets, like the rappers esthetes, Anthony Joseph invokes the spirits of voodoo funk and De La Soul in a dramatic spiritual odyssey through the whole’ Great Black Music ‘.’ I like to think that we play the soundtrack of a territory where all the black diaspora come together. The Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean in a sound. “Prepare yourself to the irresistible fusion voodoo-punk-funk Anthony Joseph & The Spasm Band. ..
Biography of Anthony Joseph
Based in London, where he formed his group, The Spasm Band, Anthony Joseph is on the stage of its current funk texts full of spirituality and its musical hybrid, Read the rest of this entry »
This Italo-British resident in France in 2006 released his second album, ‘Tearing Sky’, produced by J.-P. Plunier, also producer of Ben Harper. Singer, composer and painter, Piers Faccini explores the poetry of the blues and folk. Read the rest of this entry »