Ray Lema Quintet – Live
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ray-lema-quintet-live/
Ray Lema Quintet live on stage at Africolor Festival in october 2012.
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Miriam Makeba & Nina Simone – Thulasizwe
https://amf.didiermary.fr/miriam-makeba-nina-simone-thulasizwe/
Nina Simone collaborated with Miriam Makeba on the song “Thulasizwe / I Shall Be Released” and on May 21st, 1961, performed at Carnegie Hall for Church of the Master’s annual benefit concert. […]
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Here is a #fediwall for #TheIndieBeat radio now playing bot:
#indieMusic #music #bonkwave #nham #electronicMusic #ambientMusic #jazz #popMusic #rockMusic #rockNroll
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BBNG X FLOCKEY OCSCOR (2017)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWYX0MIl1nE
Flockey puts words over the Canadian jazz group BADBADNOTGOOD's track "Cashmere".
Bitter Dream on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/flockey/flockey-ocscor-bitter-dream
BBNG IV on Bandcamp: https://badbadnotgoodofficial.bandcamp.com/album/iv
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Gangbé, the sound of metal
https://amf.didiermary.fr/sound-metal-gangbe-brass-band/
Enjoy the Sound of Metal (Gangbe in Fon)!
The Gangbé Brass Band was a 10-member Beninese musical ensemble founded in 1994.
Disclaimer: I spent a lot of time with them...
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started listening Mingus Ah Um
One of the best recording by Charles Mingus, especially the second track, which Mingus' tribute to Lester Young
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Manu Dibango & Soul Makossa Gang (live)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/manu-dibango-soul-makossa-gang/
Le Soul Makossa Gang était la formation favorite du célèbre multi-instrumentiste et compositeur Manu Dibango.
Dédicace à tous ceux qui ont eu la chance de le voir sur scène, comme ce fut le cas pour moi au Petit Journal Montparnasse par exemple.
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The Story of Ethio Jazz
https://amf.didiermary.fr/story-ethio-jazz-mulatu-astatke/
Vibraphone and keyboard player, master arranger and bandleader, Mulatu Astatke is one of the all-time greats of Ethiopian music and the creator of his own original music form, Ethio jazz. Through the acclaimed Ethiopiques album series and through featuring on the soundtrack to the Jim Jarmusch film Broken Flowers, his music has belatedly reached […]
#60smusic #70smusic #Ethiojazz #Ethiopia #Jazz #MulatuAstatké
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Chakalaka Jazz
https://amf.didiermary.fr/chakalaka-jazz/
Chakalaka Jazz (a reference to a local sauce made from tomatoes, onions and peppers) was released in November 2024 on double vinyl, CD and digital, and includes eleven gems released in South Africa between 1969 and 2003. […]
The Tailfeathers - Tail Feathers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meu4a30Pp7w
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Sons Of Kemet – Play Mass
https://amf.didiermary.fr/sons-of-kemet-play-mass/
Two music videos for award-winning UK Jazz band Sons of Kemet from their 2015 album “Lest We Forget What We Came Here To Do”. Enjoy!
Sons Of Kemet are born of many vital elements – including a name that nods to ancient Egyptian culture, and a line-up that comprises some of the most progressive 21st-century […]
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Lester Bowie – For Fela
https://amf.didiermary.fr/lester-bowie-for-fela/
Lester Bowie spent 6 months in Lagos with Fela Kuti in 1977.
The original version is on the LP “African Children”, released in 1978. […]
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Bokani Dyer – Ke Nako
https://amf.didiermary.fr/bokani-dyer-ke-nako/
Bokani Dyer is a multi-award winning Motswana-South African pianist, composer and producer. Bokani Dyer opens with “Ke Nako” (now’s the time), with an irony, because that was a slogan used to get voters to the polls in the first post-apartheid election. Now, Dyer’s using it to remind us to think again about who we are […]
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finished listening Mingus Ah Um 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕
One of the best recording by Charles Mingus, especially the second track, which Mingus' tribute to Lester Young
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Pianist Alexander Hawkins on playing with the late, great Louis Moholo. An excellent tribute.
https://ukjazznews.com/10-tracks-i-cant-do-without-louis-moholo-moholo-a-tribute/
Feya Faku, trumpeter, flugelhorn player, and teacher passed away in Switzerland, yesterday while on tour.
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Black Europe (pre-1927)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/black-europe-before-1927/
The first comprehensive documentation of the sounds and images of black people in Europe pre-1927 Black men and women – long present in Europe – have long been overlooked as pioneering personalities in modern mass media. From the early years of the recording industry, people of African descent were featured on European phonograph cylinders, gramophone […]
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wants to listen Portrait In Jazz 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕
Favorite Jazz pianist of all time
wants to listen Mingus Ah Um 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕
One of the best recording by Charles Mingus, especially the second track, which Mingus' tribute to Lester Young
Finally took the time (my internet connection was down...) to watch Johan Grimonprez' documentary "Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat".
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14452174/
If you're interested in #Africa #History #UN #Jazz it's really worth your time.
If you want to better understand what happened when #Congo "tried" #Independence from #Belgium in 1960, how USA conspired to kill #PatriceLumumba and why there was a war in #Katanga, then there's a lot in this documentary, while listening to good music.
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Louis Armstrong sings “Black and Blue” in Ghana
https://amf.didiermary.fr/louis-armstrong-sings-black-blue-ghana/
Louis Armstrong spent 2 days in Ghana in 1956, as part of The Jazz Ambassadors program to represent America abroad. He sang and played “Black and Blue” in front of the future Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah.
I’m white inside, it don’t help my case
‘Cause I can’t hide, what is on my face, oh!
When Louis […]
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Benjamin Jephta X Kujenga – The Blessing (Live at Artscape)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=052sHF3U5TA
From "Homecoming Revisited" based on Jephta's first album, released when he was 22, in 2015: https://benjaminjephta.bandcamp.com/album/homecoming-2
Latest album: https://amf.didiermary.fr/benjamin-jephta-quintet-homecoming/
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Viwe Mkizwana - Black child
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtu-tMi8w8k
New track "People of the South" for bassist and composer Viwe Mkizwana who assembles some of the sharpest voices in the scene—Bokani Dyer, Marcus Wyatt, and more...
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/7kZlZhiFGK51U3XEyRDcOu
Sidiba – Super Boiro Band
https://amf.didiermary.fr/sidiba-super-boiro-band/
After Independence (1958), the first state Orchestra was created as Orchestre de la Garde Republicaine and was instructed to drop “European march tunes in favor of music benefiting the new nation”. Later the orchestra split into 2 bands: 1st and 2nd. Orchestre 1er changed name to Super Boiro Band.
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If you already watched "Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat", or want to, this is a #MustRead interview with Johan Gimonprez
Making films against amnesia
"The director of the Oscar-nominated film 'Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat' reflects on imperial violence, corporate warfare, and how cinema can disrupt the official record—and help us remember differently."
https://africasacountry.com/2025/04/making-films-against-amnesia
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