Majid Bekkas & Nguyên Lê & Hamid Drake - Jazz At Berlin Philharmonic XVII: Gnawa World Blues (CD)

Three musical world citizens from three continents, united by the Blues Three continents, three musical world citizens. Morocco-born Majid Bekkas, Franco-Vietnamese Nguyên Lê and American Hamid Drake have combined their astonishing musicality, their origins and their global experiences to create a captivating live concert program encompassing desert blues, Gnawa trance, Middle Eastern jazz, sixties rock and Far Eastern serenity.Voice, oud and guembri (bass lute)...electric guitar with a wide spectrum of shimmering timbres...a percussion arsenal between subtlety and physicality - these are the tools of the three world-class, globe-trotting protagonists here. Majid Bekkas's innovations have cast a wholly new light onto the fascinating music and culture of the Gnawa minority in Morocco, and he has also worked with jazz greats such as Joachim Kühn, Archie Shepp and Pharoah Sanders, and, most recently, with the Magic Spirit Quartet, whose recordings for ACT have built a bridge between Nordi