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La Mar de M鷖icas pays tribute to James Brown, with the meeting of funk and world music.
The project led by Pee Wee Ellis and Fred Wesley, key members of James Brown's band, has an exceptional guest Cheick L么.
The king of soul which has greatly influenced other artists, he says that with its frantic pace helped to create styles like rap, funk and disco, will be honored by one of the greats of African music, Senegalese Cheikh L么 .
The concert will be at 23:00 hours on Thursday 24 July, with the name of Still Black, Still Porud, African Tribute to James Brown.
Tickets at 18 Euros.
Still black, still proud (Still black, still proud) is the name of this project emerged under Alfred Pee Wee Ellis and Fred Wesley who, along with guests such as Cheikh L么 key tribute to the legendary James Brown funk.
Not surprisingly, the saxophonist, composer and arranger born in Bradenton (Florida) in 1941, was, with just twenty years, a member of James Brown's Band, Say it loud - I'm black and I'm proud and at the time, co-adventures in the same as the trombonist Fred Wesley (Mobile, Alabama, 1943), it has played in - and with "the Count Basie Orchestra, Ray Charles, Lionel Hampton, Randy Crawford, Vanessa Williams or De La Soul, and that formed in the late nineties The Fred Wesley Group.
Pee Wee has recorded with the cream, from George Benson, Hank Crawford and Esther Phillips, his band with David Liebman, and as musical director and musician Van Morrison.
In the late 80's, Pee Wee The JB Horns created with some of the musicians who had worked during the era of James Brown, Fred Wesley and Maceo Parker, and years later, with George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic and The Horny Horns .
The project tribute to the godfather of funk could only honor the figure of Brown vindicated African American supremacy.
And Africa is represented from the west, so.
Pee Wee and the Senegalese artist (born in Burkina Faso) had met in late 2001, when he began working on his album Bambay Gueej, co-produced by N'Dour and Nick Gold.
Much of the strength of the disc, following its successful Thiasss Ne Ia, went through metal arrangements by Pee Wee Ellis, the trumpet section of Afro-Cuban All Stars and the Pied Piper of La Orquesta Aragon, Richard Eg眉es .
Lamp Fall On his third album, although the foundation created in Dakar and before traveling to Bahia to work with Ale Siqueira (Tribalistas), moved to London to add the winds of Pee Wee Ellis.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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