Mamadou Ba Discography of CDs

Mamadou Ba discography Regina Carter has been a lot of places since we last heard from her on I'll Be Seeing You: A Sentimental Journey, a standards album. That album was released in June; in September she won a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (aka "the genius grant"). Nearly four years later, she returns with the startling Reverse Thread, a collection based mainly on ...

Mamadou Ba albums This is definitely an album of nines for singer/songwriter/guitarist K.J. Denhert: nine songs, nine musicians, and recorded over a nine-month time span. With omens like that it promises to be good, and it delivers. There are plenty of covers here, including her expressive voice doing justice to standards like "The Shadow of Your Smile" and "Pennies from Heaven." But ...

Mamadou Ba CD discography Vocalist/guitarist K.J. Denhert is a retro R&B-pop singer/songwriter whose clear voice and soulful style cross over into contemporary blues, so-called "smooth" jazz, and folk-rock. If you enjoy Shemekia Copeland, Pyeng Threadgill, Joan Armatrading, or even Tracy Chapman and Nina Simone, it's likely you'll enjoy Denhert. This live concert at the Umbria Jazz Festival showcases mostly original material that concentrates ...

Mamadou Ba music CDs Malian guitarist and vocalist Abdoulaye Diabate has been blurring the boundaries between traditional African music and Western-influenced pop since he joined the Orchestre Regionale de Segou in the mid-'70s. On TONIGHT"S AFRICAN JAZZ BAND, Diabate is backed by Source, an improvisational ensemble organized by Canadian flautist Sylvain Leroux. The group performs a pleasing approximation of Malian Afro-pop, but the ...

Mamadou Ba songs Les Go's combination of western production techniques and covers with African harmonies is reminiscent of 1999's hit duo, Les Nubians. However, this group from the Ivory Coast has a sound all its own. Their lush vocals are backed by a series of acoustic and electronic instruments, though they could easily stand on their own. A cover of Hall ...