The Brasilian sorcerer dives into the water to create sounds with his hands, mouth and all. These images are well-known but always carry a feelgood factor.
August 29, 1970 Isle Of Wight. At 5PM, The trumpeter and his band – Keith Jarrett, Jack DeJohnette, Gary Bartz, Airto Moreira… – played a 38 minutes set, just a long improvisation. When a woman...
Set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, Chico Hamilton played with his quintet “Blue Sands”, few minutes of spiritual jazz including Eric Dolphy on flute. Check this extract of the documentary film “Jazz on a...
He was the great singer of rhythm’n’blues of France. In sixties, while France was connected to pop new wave (les yéyés), Nino Ferrer transposes the spirit of the black-american music, helped by the Cameroonian Manu...
Anarchist and rastafarian, Mikey Smith was maybe the best dub poet in Kingston. His album Mi Cyaan Believe It became a classic, after his death : murder by political opponents after he had heckled the Jamaican Minister of Culture at...
