"For this lively merengue, ska, mento and calypso project, Courtney Pine has returned to the soprano saxophone and picked a band steeped in Afro-Caribbean music – including the French/Martinique pianist Mario Canonge, the Trinidadian steel-pan player Annise Hadeed and Jazz Jamaica drummer Rod Youngs. Though a party mood prevails on Kingstonian Swing and the Sonny Rollins-like calypsos Liamuiga (Cook Up) and House of Hutch, Pine opens the album with a trilling soprano-sax ballad in memory of Stephen Lawrence, and there are also tributes to executed rebel slave Samuel Sharpe, and to Nelson Mandela. Pine is on scalding improvisational form, wailing in blazing double-time lines, whistling high-register effects and fizzing exchanges with Hadeed and the veteran trumpeter Eddie "Tan Tan" Thornton. It has its predictable moments, but fans and newcomers will welcome this engagingly delivered repertoire." (John Fordham, The Guardian)|
" Tananas was a South African band formed in 1987. It consisted of Mozambican Gito Baloi bass and vocals, Ian Herman drums and percussion, and Steve Newman acoustic guitar. Tananas used to be essentially an instrumental band allied to jazz but unmistakably African at heart. In the group's latter stage the recordings have included more vocals by Mozambican singer and bass player Gito Baloi, who sang in Shangaan, Tsonga and Portuguese. At first glance, their music cannot be identified as typical "South African," as they play around with a wide variety of styles and merge them into their own unique blend. The album mixed different styles such as jazz, Mozambican salsa, and township jive, which had not been manifest before and took the country by storm. The band broke up in 1993 but reunited for some performances until Gito Baloi was shot dead in Johannesburg on April 4, 2004 while on his way home from a concert in Pretoria. This is their fourth album from 1992." (wikipedia)
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