World Music - CD Reviews (427)
Klezmer musician David Krakauer with his clarinet journeys into new Jewish dance territory with jazz and blues motifs within a world music setting as he interprets classic …
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In a collection blended with world music, folk, and jazz motifs, Nicholas Gunn has created a masterpiece of musical expression. THROUGH THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS, A MUSICAL…
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There’s this common ground where styles and genres of music - and of whole periods of history, in fact - converge and overlap, where it’s hard to hear where one "ends" and …
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YARDENA Y SON LADINO is going to attract a lot of new listeners to the jazz vocals of singer Yardena. Yardena utilizes motifs from Cuban rhythms, Middle Eastern music, Afro…
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For his first solo album, Justin Adams, a guitarist/player of many things stringed, has fashioned an absorbing walking tour of Northern and West Africa, with frequent stops…
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David Murray has recorded so many albums and moved into so many different directions throughout his 25-year career that it’s hard to predict where he will go next. But on h…
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Hassan Hakmoun is a Moroccan musician/singer currently residing in the US - while some of his recordings reflect a more traditional presentation of Moroccan and North Afric…
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Gino Sitson is a young jazz vocalist from Africa, singing mostly in his native Bamileke language. Born in Cameroon, he studied music and languages in Paris, France, where h…
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Here is an interesting concept. The music of Erie Satie and Bela Bartok performed by an acoustic quartet of a guitarist and trumpeter from Israel, a bassist from Brooklyn a…
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Ah, the bins of the Great Record Store of History (the mythological store where EVERY album ever made is cataloged and available) are lined with fine albums that tanked sal…
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Three musicians from various areas of jazz have come together to bring a new slant on world music. Percussionist Manolo Badrena of Weather Report, Stanley Turrentine's guit…
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Jazzanova started by chance when the DJ’s of the group were working in Berlin’s Delicious Doughnuts nightclub. The club’s management wanted to create a compilation CD of th…
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For you folks not of the Slavic persuasion, the translation of this disc's title is "In Macedonia," wholly appropriate for a disc's worth of music recorded in that Balkan n…
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A mixture of street sounds with traditional sounds of Southern countries best describes "Caravana" by Digital Bled. The group is the brain child of Joao Pedro Veloso Rodrig…
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[NOTE: The following is a revised version of a review I did of an album that is now one disc of this new 2-CD set.]Thomas Mapfumo is an innovator in the music of Zimbabwe -…
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Like Jason and the Argonauts, Spiros Exaras is leading his World-Jazz Ensemble across the Aegean for an adventure in sound. As the title Phrygianics portends, you will be w…
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DAMIAN: IN CONCERT FROM BUCHAREST is 15 selections of pure energy, led by the creative pan pipes performances of Damian. This is a splendid CD collection, and it contains a…
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Roberto Perera merges the Paraguayan harp with a contemporary jazz lineup in the 12-track album "Sensual."Exotic and romantic are two adjectives that can be used …
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Born in Pakistan, raised in Southern California and having an impressive educational transcript that includes a study in India with tabla master Alla Rakha, guitarist and p…
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For a debut collection, the CD titled SAKESHO performed by Sakesho is brilliant and innovative, original and inspired. This is world music with solid jazz motifs at its fin…
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