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Tchokola
''Tchokola'' is an album by French jazz fusion artist Jean-Luc Ponty, released in 1991. The rhythm section was recorded on analog tape. All other recording was digitally recorded.Liner notes for Tchokola. Track listing # "Mam'maï" (Abdou M'Boup, Willy N'For, Jean-Luc Ponty) – 6:00 # "Sakka Sakka" (Myriam Betty, N'For, Guy N'Sangue, Brice Wassy) – 5:22 # "Tchokola" (Wassy) – 5:47 # "Mouna Bowa" (N'sangue, Ponty) – 6:32 # "N'Fan Môt" (Ponty, Wassy) – 6:10 # " Yéké Yéké" (Mory Kanté) – 4:58 # "Bamako" (Yves N'Djock, Ponty, Wassy) – 4:31 # "Rhum 'N' Zouc" (Ponty) – 5:04 # "Cono" (Salif Keita Salif Keïta () (born 25 August 1949) is a Malian singer-songwriter, referred to as the "Golden Voice of Africa". He is a member of the Keita royal family of Mali. Biography Early life Salif Keita was born a traditional prince in the village o ...) – 4:56 # "Bottle Bop" (NDjock, Nsangue, Wassy) – 4:49 Personnel *Jean-Luc Ponty – violin, keyboards, electric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Luc Ponty
Jean-Luc Ponty (born 29 September 1942) is a French jazz violinist and composer. Early life Ponty was born into a family of classical musicians in Avranches, France. His father taught violin, his mother taught piano. At sixteen, he was admitted to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, graduating two years later with the institution's highest honor, Premier Prix (first prize). He was hired by the Concerts Lamoureux in which he played for three years. While still a member of the orchestra in Paris, Ponty picked up a side job playing clarinet (which his father had taught him) for a college jazz band, that regularly performed at local parties. It proved life-changing. A growing interest in Miles Davis and John Coltrane compelled him to take up tenor saxophone. One night after an orchestra concert, and still wearing his tuxedo, Ponty found himself at a local club with only his violin. Within four years, he was widely accepted as the leading figure in "jazz fid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davout Studios
Studio Davout is a recording studio located in Paris, France. It was created in 1965 by Yves Chamberland later joined by Claude Ermelin.Yves Chamberland and Claude Ermelin are defectors from Europa Sonor studios. It was built in the 1,200 m² of an old cinema, "Le Davout", which opened prior to 1946. Albums recorded at the studio * Rika Zaraïm² ** ''Prague'' ( EP) (1966) *France Gall ** '' Les sucettes'' (EP) (1966) *Francis Lai ** '' A Man and a Woman'' (Soundtrack) (1966) *Michel Legrand ** ''The Young Girls of Rochefort'' (1967) ** '' The Thomas Crown Affair'' (1968) *Patrick Rondat ** ''Just for Fun'' (1989) ** '' Rape of the Earth'' (1991) *Sheila ** ''Adios Amor'' (EP) (1967) *Brigitte Fontaine with Jean-Claude Vannier ** ''Brigitte Fontaine Est...Folle'' (1968) *Karlheinz Stockhausen ** '' Aus den sieben Tagen'' (1969) *Archie Shepp ** ''Blasé'' (1969) * Serge Gainsbourg ** ''Cannabis'' (film score) (1970) *Nico ** ''Desertshore'' (1970) *Ange ** ''Caricatures'' (1972) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Storytelling (Jean-Luc Ponty Album)
''Storytelling'' is an album by French jazz fusion artist Jean-Luc Ponty, released in 1989. It is his second album on the Columbia label. Track listing All songs by Jean-Luc Ponty unless otherwise noted. #"In the Fast Lane" – 4:09 #"Tender Memories" – 5:20 #"Spring Episode" – 5:52 #"Pastoral Harmony" – 4:22 #"The Storyteller" – 4:26 #"The Amazon Forest" – 4:27 #"After the Storm" – 4:21 #"A Journey's End" – 4:24 #"Chopin Prelude No. 20 (with violin improvisation) ( Frédéric Chopin) – 2:59 Personnel * Jean-Luc Ponty – violin, Synclavier synthesizer, keyboards * Grover Washington Jr. – soprano saxophone (track 2) * Jamie Glaser – electric guitar * Wally Minko – piano, keyboards * Clara Ponty – piano (track 9) * Patrice Rushen – synthesizer (track 2), synth solo (track 7) * Baron Browne – electric bass * Rayford Griffin – drums, percussion * Kurt Wortman – percussion (track 6) ;Production notes * Jean-Luc Ponty – producer * Brian Malouf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Absolute Time
''No Absolute Time'' is an album by French jazz fusion artist Jean-Luc Ponty, released in 1993. It marks his return to the Atlantic label. Track listing All songs by Jean-Luc Ponty. # "No Absolute Time" – 5:42 # "Savannah" – 9:18 # "Lost Illusions" – 5:03 # "Dance of the Spirits" – 4:59 # "Forever Together" – 5:46 # "Caracas" – 3:53 # "The African Spirit" – 4:58 # "Speak Out" – 6:23 # "Blue Mambo" – 6:12 # "The Child in You" – 4:33 Personnel *Jean-Luc Ponty – violin, keyboards, electric violin and viola, synthesizer *Martin Atangana – guitar *Kevin Eubanks Kevin Tyrone Eubanks (born November 15, 1957) is an American jazz and fusion guitarist and composer. He was the leader of The Tonight Show Band with host Jay Leno from 1995 to 2010. He also led the Primetime Band on the short lived ''The Jay Le ... – guitar (on "Blue Mambo") *Guy N'Sangue – bass, sound effects *Moustapha Cisse – percussion *Kémo Kouyaté – harp, background vocals, Balaf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economist Intelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its Metropolitan France, metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea; overseas territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Due to its several coastal territories, France has the largest exclusive economic zone in the world. France borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Andorra, and Spain in continental Europe, as well as the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, Suriname, and Brazil in the Americas via its overseas territories in French Guiana and Saint Martin (island), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz Fusion
Jazz fusion (also known as fusion and progressive jazz) is a music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and jazz improvisation, improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric guitars, amplifiers, and keyboards that were popular in rock and roll started to be used by jazz musicians, particularly those who had grown up listening to rock and roll. Jazz fusion arrangements vary in complexity. Some employ groove-based vamps fixed to a single key or a single chord with a simple, repeated melody. Others use elaborate chord progressions, unconventional time signatures, or melodies with counter-melodies. These arrangements, whether simple or complex, typically include improvised sections that can vary in length, much like in other forms of jazz. As with jazz, jazz fusion can employ brass and woodwind instruments such as trumpet and saxophone, but other instruments often substitute for these. A jazz fusion band is less likely to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epic Records
Epic Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America Sony Corporation of America (SONAM, also known as SCA), is the American arm of the Japanese conglomerate Sony Group Corporation SONAM, headquartered in New York City, manages the company's US-based businesses. Sony's principal U.S. business ..., the North American division of Japanese Conglomerate (company), conglomerate Sony. The label was founded predominantly as a jazz and classical music label in 1953, but later expanded its scope to include a more diverse range of genres, including pop music, pop, Rhythm and blues, R&B, rock music, rock, and hip hop music, hip hop. History Beginnings Epic Records was launched in 1953 by the Columbia Records unit of CBS, for the purpose of marketing jazz, pop music, pop, and European classical music, classical music that did not fit the theme of its more mainstream Columbia Records label. Initial classical music r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allmusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz Fusion
Jazz fusion (also known as fusion and progressive jazz) is a music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and jazz improvisation, improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric guitars, amplifiers, and keyboards that were popular in rock and roll started to be used by jazz musicians, particularly those who had grown up listening to rock and roll. Jazz fusion arrangements vary in complexity. Some employ groove-based vamps fixed to a single key or a single chord with a simple, repeated melody. Others use elaborate chord progressions, unconventional time signatures, or melodies with counter-melodies. These arrangements, whether simple or complex, typically include improvised sections that can vary in length, much like in other forms of jazz. As with jazz, jazz fusion can employ brass and woodwind instruments such as trumpet and saxophone, but other instruments often substitute for these. A jazz fusion band is less likely to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yé Ké Yé Ké
"Yé ké yé ké" is a song by Guinean recording artist Mory Kanté. It was released in 1987 as a single from his third studio album, ''Akwaba Beach''. The song became an international hit; it was one of Africa's best-ever selling hits as well as being a European number one in 1988, making it the first ever African single to sell over one million copies. The song was a top five hit in France, Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands, where it topped the chart for two weeks. A remix, the "Afro Acid Mix" was especially made for UK release, where it reached No. 25. In 1994, German techno duo Hardfloor remixed the song and released this new version with moderate success. A Bollywood song, "Tamma Tamma Loge", also used the music in this song. Background and lyrics The lyrics are in Mandinka. Kanté adapted it from a traditional song called "Yekeke." "All good things have many owners," said Kanté in a 1997 interview. He added that "the song comes from a wonderful tradition we have in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mory Kanté
Mory Kanté (29 March 195022 May 2020) was a Guinean vocalist and player of the kora harp. He was best known internationally for his 1987 hit song "Yé ké yé ké", which reached number-one in Belgium, Finland, the Netherlands, and Spain. The album it came from, ''Akwaba Beach'', was the best-selling African record of its time. Early life Kanté was born in Albadaria, French Guinea (a part of French West Africa at the time) on 29 March 1950. His father was El Hadj Djeli Fodé Kanté and his mother, Fatouma Kamissoko, was a singer. They were one of Guinea's best known families of griot (hereditary) musicians. He was of mixed Malian and Guinean descent. After being brought up in the Mandinka griot tradition in Guinea, he was sent to Mali at the age of seven years – where he learned to play the kora, as well as important voice traditions, some of which are necessary to become a griot. As a Muslim, he integrated aspects of Islamic music in his work. Career In 1971 Kanté b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
