Great collaborations

[lupe]

Dear friends,

I would like to share with some recent (and less recent) collaborations that I've been listening during the last months. I find all these albums of the highest quality and inspiration: everything that I'm really looking for when I'm listening to a jazz album. Here is the list, in no particular order:

 

 

1.       Uri Caine & Paolo Fresu: Think              

2.       Vincent Segal & Ballake Sissoko: Musique de nuit   

3.       Chano Dominguez & Nino Josele: Chano & Nino

4.       Mohamed Abozekry & Heejazz Extended: Ring Road

5.       Orlando Julius & the Heliocentrics: Jaiyende Afro

6.       Kayhan Kalhor & Erdal Erzincan: Kula Kulluk Yakisir Mi

7.       Tigran Hamasyan & Yerevan State Chamber Choir: Luys i Luso                 

8.       Stefano Bollani & Hamilton de Hollanda: O que será

9.       Catrin Finch & Seck Keita: Clychau Dibon 

10.   Omar Sosa & Paulo Fresu: Alma           

11.   Piers Faccini & Vincent Segal: Songs of time lost  

 

 

I hope this could be helpful for the ones who are looking for recommendations. I'm also looking forward for any reviews from the ones who have already discover any of these.

Edited June 18, 2016 by lupe

[kh1958]

I have Musique de nuit; it is indeed beautiful  (kora and cello duet).  Parts of it were  recorded on the roof of Ballake Sissoko's home in Bamako, Mali.

 

 

[lupe]

Thanks kh1958, I knew about the location, the album has indeed a very intimate feeling. If you like the combination of kora and other string instruments, you will also appreciate very much  "Clychau Dibon" by Catrin Finch & Seck Keita.

I like pretty much everything Vincent Segal does this days; the other collaboration I included in the list ("Songs of time lost", with Piers Faccini) is of a different nature but equally beautiful.

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[kh1958]

Your list is interesting; I'll try to find some of it.

I saw Nino Josele live once at the Village Vanguard--I've been meaning to find more of his music, so I've ordered the one you list--Chano Rodriguez & Nino Josele: Chano & Nino [except it's Dominguez not Rodriguez).

 

[lupe]

Oops...Thanks pointing it out, it's of course Chano Domiguez, I corrected in the initial post.

Now, if you want to discover Nino Josele, I really recommend his masterpiece, "Paz", with beautiful takes of Bill Evans' compositions. One of my favorite albums of all times. Other very good albums I often listen to is "El Sorbo", together with Javier Limon, and the more recent "El mar de ni ventana".

If "Chano & Josele" attracts you to Chano Dominguez, there is is the excellent "Piano Iberico", issued a few years ago (2010).

[kh1958]

That's the Nino Josele material I saw him perform live at the VV (the not yet famous Esperanza Spaulding was on bass) and I do have that one album.

[six string]

Omar Sosa!  I have a special place in my heart for him.  I don't have this title you mention but a few others where he duos with percussionists.  Is that the situation here or does Paulo play a different instrument?  Omar used to play at a local club regularly in the late 1990s when he lived in the SF Bay Area.  One particular night was transcenent.  It inspired a friend to right a poem and we learned that Omar broke the piano that night do to his hard playing.  No one was holding out that night.