Genre: Jazz
Original Release: 6/6/2006
1. Feast
8:54
2. Aghano
6:05
3. Lamento Africano
8:23
4. Mirage
10:28
5. O'Tinde
6:15
6. Swingin' Kilts
8:51
7. Dinga
8:58
8. Reflection
9:06
Art Blakey, who visited Africa several times, has been cited as saying jazz couldn't have happened there, that it could only have happened in America when and where it did, but Blakey was also fully aware of where those polyphonic rhythms and call-and-response patterns that underscore all of jazz came from. In the mid-'50s he began experimenting with large drum ensembles that slid African and Latin rhythms beneath hard bop horn and piano structures, resulting in a kind of worldbeat jazz hybrid years before the idea of worldbeat became codified as a musical concept. Holiday for Skins Read More
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