Archie Shepp "Gnawa Fire Music" - Jazz à Porquerolles Festival - Le 12 Juillet 2011.

Format:

Video

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Africa.

Moroccans.

Americans.

French.

Musical performances.

Music festivals.

Jazz music.

Local Subjects:

Africa.

Moroccans.

Americans.

French.

Musical performances.

Music festivals.

Jazz music.

Genre:

Performance

Physical Description:

1 online resource (53 minutes)

Other Title:

Archie Shepp "Gnawa Fire Music" - Live at Jazz à Porquerolles Festival

Place of Publication:

Paris, Ile-de-France : Qwest TV, 2011.

Language Note:

In Berber.

In English.

In French.

Original language in English.

Original language in French.

Original language in Berber.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

Alongside the biggest names in Gnawa music from Essaouira and Tangier (Mahmoud Gania, Malika Gania and Abdellah El Gourd), stands the great Archie Shepp, who, based on a sharp and happily transcendental jazz, never ceases to denounce injustices against black people. On one side, Gnawa coming from Morocco and from the city of Essaouirra looking for trance by the means of their legendary percussion. On the other, one of the greatest saxophonists in jazz history. Their meeting has more than one meaning: the Gnawa brotherhoods descend from sub-Saharan slaves brought to Morocco from the twelfth century to serve the edification of the Maghreb Muslim empire. Jazz comes from the sons of African slaves into the United States. Especially, if jazz does not, as opposed to Gnawa music, have a religious aspect, the two cross in their approaches as both free and strictly coded. In urgency, spontaneity, and in their meditative aspect. In dance as in trance. Marion Paoli

Notes:

Performed Jazz à Porquerolles

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