Gnaoua Festival of Essaouira: Randy Weston, Jamaaladeen Tacuma and Jeff Ballard on display

 

Gnaoua Festival of Essaouira: Randy Weston, Jamaaladeen Tacuma and Jeff Ballard on display


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The Gnaoua festival and World Music will take place from May 12 to 15 This edition will be, according to organizers, a rediscovery of the magic of the past and a window into the hopes for the future.

In This year, the Essaouira festival will first pay tribute to old and prodigies of the city left too early, and Mahmoud Guinea tayeb saddiki. A tribute will also be made to the general Doudou N'Diaye Rose, the sound of drums still resonates in Essaouira, 15 years after his first concert in Moroccan soil.
The festival offers this year a jazz and world music programming large bill for music lovers and hundreds of thousands of faithful to this appointment to the unique atmosphere.
From 12 to 15 May 2016, the entire city will be inhabited by the Gnaoua music added to all world music. The festivities will begin with a concert tribute to the unforgettable Mahmoud Guinea and the Senegalese percussionist Doudou N'Diaye Rose nicknamed "the magician of rhythm." Mokhtar brother Mahmoud Guinea will be joined by 12 percussionists Doudou children's merger in tribute to old and Africa talents, sublimated by the deep voice of the Sahara diva Rachida Talal.
The festival will be an opportunity to discover or rediscover the great names of jazz artists that redefined jazz by developing a unique style, offering an intelligent vision of a culture, an experience, a need. Randy Weston at Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Christian Scott and Jeff Ballard Trio.
Randy and Gnaoua is a story. He was the pioneer of the Gnawa-jazz fusion with his accomplice Tangier Maâlem Abdullah El Gourd. Randy Weston always composed for close to sixty years in a style characterized by a synthesis of African music and American jazz. Randy played with greats like Duke Ellington, Count Basie or Thelonious Monk. In the world of jazz, he has done a real place to Gnaoua.
Jamaaledden Tacuma is a jazz-funk bassist legend, he accompanied Carlos Santana, Ornette Coleman and Jeff Beck. Ornette Coleman said of him "Jamaaladeen is the master of the sequence"

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