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    Bilal Abdurahman Echoes of Timbuktu in Congo Square USA

    Smithsonian Folkways
    • Bilal Abdurahman – Interlude
    • 1. Images
    • 2. Interlude
    • 3. Lament
    • 4. The transition/the element of jazz
    • 5. The blues is born
    • 6. Spirituals
    • 7. Fiddler of Congo Square
    • 8. Gogi Solo
    • 9. Spirits of Congo Square
    • 10. Ancestral Ode
    • 11. Variation I
    • 12. Variation II
    • 13. Variation III
    • 14. Narration, Humming, African Balaphone, Tenor Saxophone
    • 15. Nice Moan'in (Three Blues Narrations)
    • 16. Afriscat Rhapsody
    • 17. Fusion
    • 18. Congo Square Procession
    • 19. African Memoirs

    Killer Northern African rhythms and instrumentation performed by Bilal Abdurahman and the East New York Ensemble, all related back to Congo Square in New Orleans and the birth of Jazz and black American music. Recommended.

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