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<title>Armik</title>
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<category>Flamenco/Fado</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:49:12 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Al DiMeola</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 7 Oct 2009 12:12:57 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Boosting metronome sales everywhere, DiMeola sent thousands of guitarists to the woodshed in the '70s to practice their muted speed picking and otherwise hone their chops. Though his early success was largely due to his faster than light plectrum skills, DiMeola has proven over the years to be quite an improviser in many genres. In Chick Corea's <i>Return to Forever</i> he lit up the Fusion world, racing through changes with a rock star's ego and distortion alongside a jazz musician's technique and improvisational skills. Picking up the acoustic guitar more often proved to be artistically beneficial, especially in his blazing neo-Flamenco trio with John McLaughlin and Paco De Lucia. The past decade or so has found DiMeola de-emphasizing his string-slinging for a more compositional approach, drawing on South American, Middle Eastern, and Spanish flavors.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Special EFX</title>
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<category>Crossover Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 10:51:03 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Strunz and Farah</title>
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<category>Europe</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 2 Sep 2009 12:06:34 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[This acoustic guitar duo of Costa Rican and Persian heritage play Flamenco with Arabic and Jazz Fusion influences. Touring widely among diverse audiences, Strunz and Farah have received accolades as a nylon string guitar virtuoso. Serious compositions are played with studied, strong technique.
- Robert Leaver]]></description>
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<title>Larry Coryell</title>
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<category>Fusion</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:04:30 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In many ways, Coryell and fellow guitarist John McLaughlin have had parallel careers, helping to found the Jazz Rock and Fusion genres in the late '60s and early '70s, before moving on to straight-ahead jazz and World Fusion collaborations. Coryell has proven his versatility on distorted electric, hollowbody, acoustic, and even twelve-string guitar, playing with fiery technique and a raw, cutting tone. Perhaps it was the musicians with whom he worked that helped drive his experimental improvisations. McLaughlin, Miroslav Vitous, John Scofield, Bernard Purdie, Billy Cobham, Chick Corea and Jack DeJohnette all brought intense rhythmic and/or harmonic ideas to the table, but Coryell's pioneering ideas surely symbiotically influenced them as well. The albums <I>Spaces</I> and <I>Larry Coryell's 11th House</I> are seminal Fusion albums on which Coryell experiments with new sounds and ways of breaking down jazz's boundaries.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>John McLaughlin</title>
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<category>Fusion</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:56:11 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Not many people have a Miles Davis track named after them, but guitarist John McLaughlin earned that honor for his raw jazz-based soloing which held together Davis' monumental <I>Bitches Brew</I>. McLaughlin's versatility and stylistic mastery is unmatched; he's worn many hats through the years, helping to invent Fusion with his combination of jazz virtuosity and blistering rock 'n' roll aggression. His playing is layered and tasteful, floating from full speed improvisation to open-sounding chords and chameleon-like variations. He began as a session player in England, jamming with Clapton, Hendrix and Jimmy Page, and worked his way up to a brilliant Post Bop debut <I>Extrapolation</I>. McLaughlin moved on to join Tony Williams' Lifetime and Miles Davis' bands, before founding the Mahavishnu Orchestra in the early '70s. Dissatisfied with the limitations of playing a single genre, McLaughlin joined tabla master Zakir Hussain to form Shakti, an innovative and exceptional combination of Indian classical music and jazz. His intense, fruitful collaborations are also numerous: over the years McLaughlin has recorded outstanding albums with Carlos Santana, Buddy Miles, Billy Cobham, Paco De Lucia and Al Dimeola, and many more.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Hugh Masekela</title>
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<category>Latin &amp; World Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 6 Jun 2009 08:29:43 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Born in apartheid-era South Africa in 1939, Masekela studied the piano, enjoying American jazz artists like Bessie Smith and Duke Ellington. The Bix Beiderbecke-inspired movie <i>Young Man With a Horn</i> convinced Masekela to take up the trumpet. Archbishop Trevor Huddleston gave him his first trumpet, and Masekela began working with dance bands including Zakes Nkosi's and Ntemi Piliso's. After the 1960 Sharpeville massacre, Masekela fled to England, where Yehudi Menuhin and others found him a place in a music school. Miriam Makeba, his former wife, then helped him make the move to New York, introducing him to Harry Belafonte and Dizzy Gillespie. Masekela made a splash in the mid-'60s, but it wasn't until 1968's <I>Promise of a Future</i> that he had a monster hit with "Grazing in the Grass." Though known for pop-oriented work, his trumpet-playing ranks among the best of the 20th century. (He's no slouch as a singer, either.) Masekela went on to explore Nigerian music, Afrobeat and traditional South African music, and he worked on the musical <I>Sarafina</i> with Mbongeni Ngema. He returned to South Africa after Nelson Mandela's release and has lived and recorded there since.
- Sarah Bardeen]]></description>
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<title>Stephane Grappelli</title>
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<category>Swing</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 12:40:10 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[To most of the public, Stephane Grappelli defines jazz violin. This French maverick met the perfect foil when he teamed up with Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt in the 1930s and '40s. After Django's death, Grappelli spent the '50s and '60s as a respected European musician before re-emerging as a global superstar in the 1970s. Grappelli has made stellar recordings with such European bopsters as Michel Legrand and George Shearing and such Americans as Oscar Peterson and McCoy Tyner. He made beautiful music that lived completely out of time, ignoring fads and trends without succumbing to gilded nostalgia. When he died in 1997, nobody thought of him as a great French jazz musician -- he was remembered as a gifted jazz musician, period, who was a tireless musical ambassador for the music that he never stopped loving.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Jai Uttal</title>
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<category>World Pop</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:30:42 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Fusing jazz, Worldbeat, and traditional Indian chants, Uttal crafts a passionate and entrancing musical brew. His robust baritone voice dips and soars with devotion; his dotar offers microtonal embellishments that lilt and sigh with a mixture of sadness and exultation. But this is not merely a wholesale Westernization of Eastern musical styles -- this is a full-fledged World Fusion project. The ensemble includes Hammond organ, country-fried electric guitar, and a rhythm section that percolates somewhere between down-tempo breakbeat and Reggae. And when a trombone and sax join the guitar and organ in soulful, articulate melodies, the music defies genre classification.
- Noah Enelow]]></description>
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<title>Jai Uttal and the Pagan Love Orchestra</title>
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<category>World Fusion</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:39 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Alex de Grassi &amp; Quique Cruz</title>
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<category>New Age Acoustic</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 2 Feb 2009 09:28:49 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Though they come from different hemispheres and distant musical realms, these two musicians converge on a metaphysical plane to produce brilliant music together. Recognized as one of the greatest fingerstyle steel-string guitar players, Alex de Grassi has recorded highly acclaimed records for new age label Windham Hill. On the other side of this musical equation, Chile native Quique Cruz plays the charango (a petite guitar), as well as folkloric drums, flutes and panpipes. The duo's original compositions are based on Andean rhythms transformed with a jazz swing or blues shuffle. The ensemble, which includes unobtrusive (yet precise) drumming, brushed cymbals, acoustic bass and superb piano work courtesy of Michael Bluestein, coalesces the strings and flutes of de Grassi and Cruz with subtlety and grace. As if in service of greater form, the musicians seem to leave their egos aside as they respond to one another with seriousness, joy and jazz-like spontaneity.
- Robert Leaver]]></description>
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<title>Ty Burhoe</title>
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<category>World Fusion</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 10:35:32 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Pat Martino</title>
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<category>Post Bop</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 8 Jul 2009 13:07:46 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Brilliant performer started his career playing with Soul Jazz icons Willis 'Gator Tail' Jackson, Jack McDuff and Don Patterson. Philadelphia resident Martino has stretched the boundaries of jazz guitar by coming up with innovative theories and ways of playing that direct his fluid, cerebral lines. Talking with John Coltrane over hot chocolate at the age of 14 helped inspire Martino, who forged a rhythmically solid style that astounds the listener with endless streams of chromatic notes. He's gone on to include world and electronic influences in his bebop oriented playing, consistently delivering dynamic runs over whichever style he chooses to explore. In the early 1980s Martino lost much of his memory due to a brain aneurysm. He recovered to his original form listening to his old records and relearning the guitar.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Paul Winter</title>
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<category>World Fusion</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 1 Dec 2009 09:48:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Yves Larock</title>
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<category>World Fusion</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 8 Dec 2009 09:16:47 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Delhi 2 Dublin</title>
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<category>World Pop</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 09:06:44 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Benedetti &amp; Svoboda</title>
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<category>Flamenco/Fado</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:21:31 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[This classically trained duo from San Diego tour the world playing their beautiful, flamenco-style music. Blessed with superior technique and an elegant sense of dynamics, Benedetti and Svoboda are adept at teasing the emotions of the listener.]]></description>
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<title>Richard Bona</title>
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<category>World Fusion</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 6 Dec 2009 09:55:38 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Dave Douglas</title>
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<category>Avant Garde Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:27:41 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A top modern-day composer and improviser, Dave Douglas has worked with luminaries such as John Zorn and Anthony Braxton to forge his avant-jazz sound. In his Tiny Bell Trio and larger groups, Douglas mixes world influences with jazz in progressive ways, bringing together Old World folk and experimental sounds. He claims diverse influences such as Igor Stravinsky, John Coltrane, Stevie Wonder and trumpeters Lester Bowie and Booker Little. It's these last two musicians that shine through the most: Bowie's timbral mastery and Booker Little's blistering Post Bop runs create quite a powerful combination. Douglas has implemented these influences into a unique sound ripe with technical prowess and musical maturity.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Andy Narell</title>
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<category>World Fusion</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 1 Jul 2009 13:35:03 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Airto Moreira</title>
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<category>World Fusion</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 8 Oct 2009 11:44:50 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Avishai Cohen (bass)</title>
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<category>Post Bop</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 7 Jul 2009 03:52:28 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Cohen is an engaging young bassist from Israel who's become a heavy-duty session player in New York, ably backing many jazz greats including Danilo Perez and Chick Corea. He originally concentrated on the electric bass, refocusing his talents on the upright acoustic instrument before becoming equally comfortable switching off. He's now added keyboards to his arsenal and combines eastern musical elements with challenging Post Bop compositions. An explorer who isn't above guiding the listener through the musical journey.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Egberto Gismonti</title>
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<category>World Fusion</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:07:16 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Ginger Baker</title>
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<category>Jazz Rock</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:46:22 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Known originally for his skin-pounding, highly influential playing in the '60s, Ginger Baker drove Cream's powerful sound and forced many a youngster to drop out of school to play drums. Baker has since slipped in and out of the music scene, shifting from heavy rock to jazz and world. While living in Africa he performed with Fela 'Ransome' Kuti before forming a string of different fusion ensembles. More recent work with artists such as Charlie Haden and Bill Frisell have helped Baker prove that he can aptly play in a jazz setting, while collaborations with Bill Laswell produced a cultural/musical mish-mash featuring top instrumentalists from around the globe.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Franciscus Terpstra</title>
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<category>World Fusion</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:02:50 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Oregon</title>
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<category>World Fusion</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:22:06 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Drums of the World</title>
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<category>World Fusion</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 4 Jun 2009 08:30:12 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Tin Hat Trio</title>
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<category>Avant Garde Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:58:35 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[If Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli brought in a talented accordion player for their sessions and shared a bottle with Tom Waits and Astor Piazzolla, you'd still only have a part of the vibrant creativity embodied by Tin Hat Trio. Soaring violin melodies evoke European Gypsy traditions (and classical training), while jazzy guitar slips from background to forefront, with colorful melodies and syncopated rhythms set to the old-world drones of various pump-organs, toy pianos and accordion. They've lent their talents to many -- assisting artists such as Tom Waits, guitarist Bill Frisell and minimalist Philip Glass -- adding their distinct, ethnic, chamber style to every session. Rarely can three virtuosos come together for such musically unselfish and utterly innovative sounds.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Ananda Shankar</title>
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<category>South Asia</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:04:56 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Everybody knows the Beatles studied with the Maharishi, but not everyone knows Ananda Shankar -- one of the first musicians to really bring Indian music to western pop. Nephew to Ravi Shankar and the son of classical dancers, Shankar grew up in a music-saturated environment. After completing his academic studies, he turned to the sitar. Rather than pursue classical Hindustani music, however, Shankar was interested in fusion almost from the get-go. A trip to California in the late 1960s cemented Shankar's passion for genre-mixing, and he laid down a self-titled album that became a cult favorite -- primarily because of his adventurous eastern takes on songs like "Light My Fire" and "Jumpin' Jack Flash." A new generation of Asian breakbeat artists rediscovered Shankar nuggets in the mid-1990s, and Shankar found himself touring in Peter Gabriel's Womad festival and recording with Asian hipsters State of Bengal. The resulting album, <i>Walking On</i>, is a playful disc that has a harder edge than most Real World releases, though it's certainly not for purists. Shankar died in 1999.
- Sarah Bardeen]]></description>
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<title>Mo' Horizons</title>
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<category>World Fusion</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:48:40 -0800</pubDate>
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- Rachel Devitt]]></description>
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<title>Toubab Krewe</title>
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<category>Africa</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:54:28 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Yusef Lateef</title>
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<category>Hard Bop</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:39:18 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[An extremely talented multi-instrumentalist with a thorough understanding of African music, Lateef brought his skill as a tenor sax, flute and oboe master to many classic recordings, spicing up a Grant Green Hard Bop session as easily as covering many bases for Charles Mingus, Donald Byrd and Cannonball Adderley. Occasionally using odd instruments like the Indian Shenhai, the bassoon and various flutes, Lateef brought an exotic feel to many of his sessions. This is not to say he can't tear up a sax solo on a straight-ahead session -- he's got more than enough deep American soul and streamlined technique to put him in the top echelon of jazz players.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Abdullah Ibrahim</title>
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<category>Latin &amp; World Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:33:50 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[When Duke Ellington sings your praises, people listen. Originally known as Dollar Brand, South African born Abdullah Ibrahim was discovered in Zurich by the Duke in 1963. Ibrahim grew up in Cape Town where native hymns were played alongside American Gospel and jazz. Ellingtons music struck Ibrahim even as a child and it had a big impact on his own style. Like Duke and Thelonious Monk, Ibrahims music is complex even at its simplest. Ibrahim moved to New York and spent the latter half of the '60s working with cutting edge jazz innovators. In 1968, he converted to Islam and the effect on his music was immediate. Since that time the African influence on his small and large groups has been enormous. His playing became unique in the world of jazz and African music. With the end of Apartheid, Abdullah Ibrahim is now free to travel between North America, Europe, and South Africa. His music has never known such borders.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Terri Liles Mason</title>
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<category>World Fusion</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 6 Jun 2009 08:29:30 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Monica Salmaso</title>
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<category>Brazilian Pop</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:51:28 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Salmaso's liquid voice has an earthy presence as she sings folkloric and Brazilian religious material in jazzy arrangements. Instrumentation is relatively sparse, with the accent on percussion, bass and accordion. A pop excursion with deep rhythms.
- Robert Leaver]]></description>
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<title>Farzad Farhangi</title>
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<category>World Fusion</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:18 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>anup</title>
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<category>World Fusion</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:19 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Paul Cebar</title>
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<category>World Fusion</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 7 Jul 2009 03:52:29 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Al Di Meola World Sinfonia</title>
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<category>World Fusion</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:21:36 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Synopsis</title>
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<category>World Fusion</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 4 Mar 2009 12:16:33 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Zakir Hussain</title>
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<category>Hindustani Instrumental</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:50:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The stories of Zakir Hussain's training are legendary: 40 days of fasting and sleep deprivation capped a childhood of routinely practicing 18 hours per day. His father and guru Alla Rahka (one of India's most distinguished performers himself) taught Hussain the techniques of memorizing ridiculously long strings of percussive permutations and translating them to the tablas. Hussain was extremely young when he began to accompany some of India's most famous musicians, such as Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan, before leaving to team up with guitarist John McLaughlin to form Shakti. One of his greatest contributions has been successful attempts at blending North Indian Classical music with Western music. Collaborations with Bill Laswell and Mickey Hart (of the Grateful Dead) have produced multi-cultural percussive mixtures enhanced by top-notch musicians from around the world. Seeing Hussain perform is magical: his fingers fly faster than the eye, synchronized with an empathic understanding of his fellow musicians.
- Sarah Bardeen]]></description>
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<title>Yogi Hari</title>
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<category>World Fusion</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 7 Oct 2008 08:17:47 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Organic Grooves</title>
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<category>World Fusion</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:24:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Manfredo Fest</title>
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<category>Bossa Nova</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:50 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Fest has been recording since the late '70s, drawing equally on Bop and the music of his native Brazil. His polished recordings often feature electric bass and multiple percussionists, while his piano playing is consistently fluid, tasteful, and concise.
- Will York]]></description>
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<title>George Jinda</title>
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<category>Smooth Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:48 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[As one half of Special EFX, Jinda has already earned a reputation as both an excellent percussionist and a talented Smooth Jazz writer. On his own efforts, he continues to gracefully merge world rhythms and contemporary urban Funk.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Billet-Deux</title>
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<category>World Fusion</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:40:09 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Dori Caymmi</title>
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<category>Vocal Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:00:02 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Beginning his career as a well respected arranger and composer for television in the Brazilian creative center of Bahia, Dori Caymmi came to be noticed in America in the &#8216;80s. Working with the likes of Quincy Jones, Sarah Vaughan, and Branford Marsalis, Caymmi&#8217;s lush guitar work began to be a fully realized integration of American and Brazilian jazz. He has since maintained a loyal following in both the States and Brazil.]]></description>
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<title>Trilok Gurtu</title>
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<category>World Fusion</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:42:50 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Trilok Gurtu is a jazz percussionist who's played with everyone from Don Cherry, Bill Evans, Pat Metheny and John McLaughlin to Zakir Hussain and Asha Bhosle. His trademark East-West drumkit and elastic style have earned him accolades -- and four Downbeat awards. His own albums hew toward fusion: on 2001's <I>The Beat of Love</I> he brought African pop into the fold, enlisting help from African singers Angelique Kidjo and Salif Keita, among others. In recent years the Asian Underground has taken to Gurtu -- electronica artists like Nitin Sawney and Talvin Singh cite him as an influence and spin his records at club nights. His mother is the great classical (and fusion) singer Shobha Gurtu.
- Sarah Bardeen]]></description>
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<title>Theodros Mitiku</title>
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<category>World Fusion</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 10:37:56 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Vijay Iyer</title>
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<category>Post Bop</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 8 Aug 2009 09:51:02 -0700</pubDate>
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