The music of the African diaspora has recently experienced a resurgence within jazz circles. It's true that the '60s were a time of African renaissance within out jazz nuclei in Chicago and New York, ...

A passionate prolific player with lots to say and the vocabulary to preach, David Murray finds an aggregation capable of burning through the music with him in the Gwo-Ka Masters. Anchored by the ...

Gwo ka is a traditional sound unique to Guadeloupe, a French island in the Caribbean. The genre blends chanting, syncopated drumming and movements to pay homage to slave ancestors. The "ka" (drum) and ...

There are those whose art seems created in a vacuum. Though the term ‘outsider music’ is rife with issues, it can serve its purpose when considering the ways others often become responsible for its ...

L’article s’intéresse à l’interculturalité entre deux phénomènes culturels que sont le Gwo-ka et le Blues issus de la diaspora africaine aux Amériques. Le Gwo-ka est une expression culturelle née en ...

Gwo Ka is a 3yo bay unknown from France trained by C Ferland, who is based at France. It is sired by the stallion Johnny Barnes out of the dam Van Catskill. Gwo Ka is yet to break its maiden status, ...

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In recent years the hyperactive reedist David Murray has become increasingly interested in fusing his own postfreedom jazz with exotic and relatively hidden folk traditions from Africa and its ...

Since the late 90s jazz heavy David Murray has found an especially effective backing for his soul-searing improvisations on tenor sax and bass clarinet, working with musicians from Senegal and ...

With a voice marked by a strident sense of drama and emotion, saxophonist David Murray creates dynamic and incendiary improvisations that have often been likened to the work of avant-garde iconoclast ...

Perhaps realizing that there really wasn’t much more than an electric guitarist separating the Gwo-Ka Masters’ funky group improvisational getdowns from what was happening on the jam band circuit, ...