World Music Ensemble: Celebration! (CD)
Format: CD Label: Mapleshade Year: 1993 Media Condition: New Sleeve/Cover Condition: New TRACKS: 1 Egypt 2 Wade In The Water 3 African Chant 4 Rokudan No Shirabe 5 Mount Fujimaro 6 Global Fusion Rap 7 Djembe Jam 8 Celebration! PERSONNEL: Winds, percussion - Brother Ah (Robert Northern) Spanish guitar - Torcuato Zamora Koto - Kyoko Okamoto Bass, shekere - Atiba (Donald Sheldon) Marimba, percussion - Kevin Campbell Vocals, percussion - Imani Gorgeous all-acoustic arrangements of hand-carved African flutes, Afro-Caribbean percussion, woodwinds, guitar, and koto. Their delicate beauty is captured with amazing transparency and detail. Recorded at Pierre Sprey's Mapleshade studio. The renowned French horn player known as Brother Ah (aka Robert Northern) is one of the most prolific and respected musicians in the history of jazz music. Brother Ah recorded with some of the most illustrious names in the genre, including Donald Byrd, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis,