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Javier Vercher Trio + Lionel Loueke and Ra Kalam Bob Moses 21:30

21 may 2022
Javier Vercher - Lionel loueke - Pablo Martin Caminero - Jose M. Ruiz Motos Bandolero - Ra Kalam Bob Moses

Ra Kalam Bob moses, an excellent drummer who has received his greatest recognition as a colorful and adventurous arranger/songwriter for large groups. considered one of the most original and daring modern jazz musicians. His influences range from the early masters, Ellington, Monk, and Miles Davis, to ethnic sources from Africa and Latin America. Often playing with tree branch drumsticks and custom drums, Moses pays as much attention to his sound and tone as he does to rhythm. He played in his teens with Rahsaan Roland Kirk (1964-1965), formed the fusion group Free Spirits with Larry Coryell (1966), and toured several times with Gary Burton's quartet (1967-1969). He also collaborated with Dave Liebman in the trio Open Sky, and continued to record with Gary Burton in the mid-'70s. At the same time, he worked with the likes of Jack DeJohnette, Pat Metheny (recording Bright Size Life), Mike Gibbs, Hal Galper, Gil Goldstein, Steve Swallow, the Steve Kuhn/Sheila Jordan group (1979-1982), George Gruntz and Emily Remler's Concert Jazz Band (1983-1984). He recorded as a songwriter for his own Mozown label in 1975, but Moses' reputation as a writer rests mainly on his Gramavision releases, especially When Elephants Dream of Music (1982), Visit With the Great Spirit (1983), and 1994's Time Stood. and Nishoma which aired in the fall of 2000. He also founded his own record label, Mozown Records, and released Bittersuite on The Ozone and the critically acclaimed albums When Elephants Dream of Music (1982) and Visit With The Great Spirit (1983). These two albums firmly established Moses as a highly original composer and orchestrator, in addition to his percussion prowess.

Lionel Louke is a guitarist and vocalist born in Benin, West Africa. He studied at the National Institute of Art in Côte d'Ivoire, the American School of Music in Paris from 1994 to 1998, the Berklee College of Music from 1999 to 2001 and the IThelonious Monk Institute. He appeared on Blanchard's albums Bounce (2003) and Flow (2005) and on Hancock's Possibilities (2006) and River: The Joni Letters (2007). He has also worked with Avishai Cohen, Charlie Haden, Angelique Kidjo and Francisco Mela. He belongs to the Gilfema trio with Massimo Biolcati and Ferenc Nemeth.As a solo artist, Loueke recorded the album live in a trance (2005) for Space Time Records and Virgin Forest (2006) for ObliqSound. He made his major label debut in 2008 when Blue Note released his album karibu , where he fuses African music with jazz harmonies, vocal inflections and complex time signatures. The album includes Biolcati and Nemeth and guest appearances by Hancock and Shorter. your album Mwaliko (2010) is a collection of duo and trio performances combining traditional West African music with jazz. Guests include Angélique Kidjo (a Benin native), Richard Bona from Cameroon and the American musicians Marcus Gilmore and Esperanza Spalding.

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Date:
21 May 2022
Time:
9:30 p.m. - 11:30 p.m.
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