Congo Square (DVD)
This dynamic 2 hour performance of Congo Square at the 2007 Montreal Jazz Festival features, along with Marsalis, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s other outstanding soloists. Odadaa! is made up of nine musicians performing on drums, flutes, balaphones and bells. Whichever group is playing, the performance is filled with the improvising spirit at the root of jazz.
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Album Info
| Ensemble | JLCO with Wynton Marsalis featuring Yacub Addy and Odadaa! |
|---|---|
| Release Date | March 4th, 2008 |
| Recording Date | June 28, 2007 |
| Record Label | Shanachie Records |
| Catalogue Number | 6332 |
| Formats | DVD |
| Genre | Jazz at Lincoln Center Recordings |
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Track Listing
| Track | Length | Preview |
|---|---|---|
| SCENE ACCESS | ||
| Ring Shout | ||
| Awo | ||
| Home | ||
| Timin Timin / Fireflies | ||
| Adjeseke | ||
| Place Congo | ||
| Tsotsobii | ||
| Logo Talk | ||
| It Never Goes Away | ||
| War | ||
| Hedzole Baba | ||
| Sanctified Blues | ||
| Kolomashi | ||
Liner Notes
Wynton Marsalis pays homage to his hometown of New Orleans in Congo Square, a ground-breaking suite celebrating Congo Square s unique role in shaping American music.
Long before New Orleans’ fabled red light district Storyville became famous as an incubator of jazz, legend has it that in the I 700s and 1800s the Congo Square market behind the French Quarter was the only public place in America where African slaves were allowed to perform their own music. Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with African master drummer Yacub Addy and Odadaa! revisit this bedrock of jazz and blues where the earliest African stylings first entered American music. This fascinating project reacquaints every strain in the evolution of jazz from Dixieland through swing and funk with its African roots as first heard in Congo Square.
Credits
Congo Square composed by Wynton Marsalis and Yacub Addy.
Published by Skayne’s Music.
Front cover photo by Clay Patrick Mcbride
Back cover photo and inside photo under tray by Ayano Hisa
Front cover illustration by E. W. Kemble fom “The Dance In Place Congo” By George W. Cable, Feb.1886.
Produced By Amérimage.Spectra Inc.
Directed By Mario Rouleau
Producers: Alain Simard / Pierre L. Touchette
Executive Producer: Luc Châtelain
Recorded and videotaped at the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal, June 28, 2007.
©2007 Amérimage-Spectra Inc. All Rights Reserved.
® 2008 Shanachie Entertainment Corp. All Rights Reserved.
Package Design: Lorien Babajian
16:9 anamorphic / Color / 2 hours / All regions / NTSC / Dolby Digital Stereo
Personnel
- Ryan Kisor – trumpet
- Marcus Printup – trumpet
- Sean Jones – trumpet
- James Zollar – trumpet
- Chris Crenshaw – trombone
- Vincent Gardner – trombone
- Elliot Mason – trombone
- Victor Goines – tenor sax, soprano sax, clarinet, bass clarinet
- Ted Nash – alto sax, soprano sax, clarinet, flute, piccolo
- Sherman Irby – alto sax, soprano sax, clarinet, flute
- Walter Blanding – tenor sax, soprano sax, clarinet
- Joe Temperley – baritone sax, bass clarinet
- Carlos Henriquez – bass
- Ali Jackson – drums, tambourine
- Dan Nimmer – piano
- Yacub Addy – percussion, vocals
- Okoe Nunoo – percussion, vocals
- Obuamah Laud Addy – percussion, vocals
- Ani Apang – guitar, percussion, vocals
- Imani Gonzalez – vocals
- Zorkie Nelson – bamboo flutes, percussion, vocals
- Tawiah Nunoo – percussion, vocals
- Nii Ayaa Tagoe – flutes, percussion, vocals
- Otey Thompson – balaphone, percussion, vocals
