I'm working on getting some data on who these musicians are, what country they're from, what dialect of Arabic the singer's using, what mode/scale they're playing in, and what the names of their instruments are.
In the last few years, jazz has made one of its most radical transformations since the 1960s... Here are 12 of the finest young jazz musicians making jazz history: Rudresh Mahanthappa, Vijay Iyer + Fieldwork Trio, Cuong Vu, Ole Mathisen, Andy Milne, Sylvie Courvoisier, Ron Horton, Herb Robertson + NY Downtown Allstars, David S. Ware, Moutin Reunion Quartet, Susie Ibarra, Craig Taborn, Russ Lossing, Steve Lehman Quartet...
Playing with microtiming is a remarkable feature of musical rhythm in the Western Sudan. Both African and Western musicians and musicologists have time and again wondered at the capability of Malian, Senegambian or Guinean drummers to excitingly place not
martinledjembefola writes, "I'm a musician and percussionist who has a passion for Africa and drums, especially djembe." He generously uploaded 16 djembe rhythm notations, 4 djembe lessons, and a legend for reading the notations, to Scribd ...11 months ago...and I'm the first to "like" his posts! Can you believe it? What riches he gave us!
Klezmer (from Yiddish כּלי־זמיר, kley - instrument and zemer - song; etymologically from Hebrew k'li zemer כלי זמר, "musical instrument") is a musical tradition which parallels Hasidic and Ashkenazic Judaism. Around the 15th century, a tradition of secular (non-liturgical) Jewish music was developed by musicians called klezmorim or kleyzmurim. They draw on devotional traditions extending back into Biblical times, and their musical legacy of klezmer continues to evolve today.
St. Germain is the stage name of Ludovic Navarre, a French musician whose style merges jazzy house music with acid jazz. Bob Marley, Toots and The Maytals, Miles Davis and Kool & The Gang are among Ludovic's early influences.
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