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The Randy Weston Interview
Diaspora, the actual transfer of slaves from Africa to the middle islands was endemic of the cut throat policies that empires had and still have.
What kept the slaves together spirituality was the drum and the rhythms that came from the drum...let the body dance the mambo or the bolero or Afro Cuban or bebop.
My guest today is one of the most rhythmic percussive pianists in the world. His sound is unique and has been for the last 70 years. He came of age with Bird and Duke Basie and Ellington before cutting albums as a leader.
What does it take to be a good leader? Knowing the history of the music your playing and creating is being a good leader and my guest has always had major threads of his homeland in his music.
He has been traveling to Africa to listen and hear the chants of the natives along with the elephants and lions and scorched earth where all of man originated.
He plays the Niger Mambo with Big Black in the loft downtown along with Thelonious and Barry Harris and Ray Bryant. Catch up on some sleep, shake off the demons and get back on the bandstand.
Listen to an excerpt of the Randy Weston Interview:
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Dear Mr Feinberg
Love your Spirit on your Shows.
I’ve played with Booker Ervin and lived in his NYC-flat, actualy the home of Randy Weston. I practised on his big brown offtuned grand piano wich practicaly was the only furniture of the living room lol…
What ever, it was a loooong time ago, the party at Glen Moors home, my old friend Ralph Turner with whom I shiped over from Italy, and so on…
I’d like to send the warmest greetings from my Island Madeira where the jazz Festival just ended.
Yours, Alex Bally (swiss Drummer)