Guy Warren
Kofi Ghanaba (1923-2008), who recorded as Guy Warren, is considered the founding father of a movement to reunite (in his...
Month: May 2020
Jazz in Benin
Following Benin's independence in 1960, the US Bureau of Educational and Cultural Relations sponsored music events in Benin's capital city,...
Jazz in Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan International Jazz Festival celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2021. It was founded by Tagir Zaripov, who also opened Central...
Jazz in France
It has been said that France was the first country to take jazz seriously as an artform, before even America...
Django Reinhardt
Django Reinhardt (1910-1953) is almost certainly the most influential jazz artist to have come out of Europe, with a whole...
Tete Montoliou
Blind Catalan pianist Tete Montoliou (1933-1997) was a virtuoso performer, born in Barcelona in Catalonia. He began to learn the...
Amancio D’Silva
Amancio D'Silva (1936-1996) was born in Bombay to Goan parents. Keen to learn the guitar after hearing jazz on the...
Jean-Serge Essous
Jean Serge Essous (1935-2009) was born in Mossendjo in what was then French Equatorial Africa, today in the Republic of...
Salah Ragab
Drummer Salah Ragab (1935-2008) was born into a military family, in comfortable circumstances, the son of a pasha (an honorary...
Maurice El Medioni
Algerian-Jewish pianist, Maurice El Medioni (born 1928) was born in the port of Oran into a family of musicians. His...
