Artist : Hal Singer & Jef Gilson
Title : Soul Of Africa
Genre : Jazz+Funk
Year : 2008
Date : 12/2008
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 05
Label : Kindred Spirits
Source : Vinyl
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 31:09 min
Size : 43,1 MB
Tracklist:
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01.chant inka 08:39
02.mother africa 06:56
03.the high life 04:00
04.liberation 05:29
05.garvey's strut 06:05
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31:09 min
Soul Of Africa is regarded as one of the key
documents of the Afro-Parisian jazz scene
of the seventies and eighties.
That isn't a statement I can in any way qualify
or support; it's just something I read.
I gather we're all comfortable with that scenario?
Good, then I can continue to bluff my way through
this text. Pianist and composer Jef Gilson teamed
up with Hal Singer, a Texan saxophonist who
moved to the French capital, finding kinship with
Gilson's affection for African-influenced jazz.
The percussion is a dominant force throughout
Soul Of Africa. Particularly colourful rhythmic
details arise from 'Mother Africa', which swings
through an overloaded jumble of drumming and
complex upright basslines, while Singer cuts
through the chaos with his clarion tenor lines.
There seems to have been a good number of
high quality spiritual jazz reissues in recent times,
and Soul Of Africa is another to add onto that list.