This video seems to give a brief run over a few different instruments and style..

Anyone say more please?

Wicked drumming and dancing

A kind of djembe related documentary with Mansa Camio.

I’ve been checking out a bit of Zouli lately and decided to keep them all in one.

Have a look and see what you think and join the discussion.

Thought this may be of interest to some of you.

The DVD shot last summer of Yacub Addy and Wynton Marsalis’s

composition “Congo Square” on the opening night of the 2007 Montreal

Jazz Festival has been released by Shanachie Entertainment. It is

available on amazon.com, in Barnes & Noble stores, and can also be

rented from Netflix.This is a culturally historic masterwork combining Ghanaian rhythms

and songs with jazz forms, but it’s also some of the most dynamic and

hot music you’ve ever heard - it lifts the spirit and moves the body.

Each of the musicians of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and

Yacub Addy’s ensemble Odadaa! have made a great effort and the love shows.

Congo Square DVD

The concert captured in the DVD came at the end of the second national

tour of the music. The music naturally evolved over this time and the

result is a performance unique from the CD recorded at the end of the

first tour.

The Congo Square CD is available digitally from iTunes (type in “Congo

Square”) and from Jazz at Lincoln Center: http://www.jalc.org/congo/

If you order it from iTunes, I suggest buying the whole album as it

was written as one continuous piece with 15 movements. With an album

purchase you also digitally receive a 28-page booklet with articles by

Mr. Addy and Mr. Marsalis, and song translations.

This video is great. Make sure to check out the guy in white dancing near the end… brilliant.

Mathieu has posted some solo for Mendiani, which is pretty cool and worth checking out…