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Kora Jazz Trio - Part Two

Part two A couple of years after the trio’s first opus, “Part one”, the piano, percussions and kora once again unite to offer

an alchemy you could roughly label Mandingo jazz.Aboulaye Diabaté, Moussa Cissoko and Djeli Moussa Diawara proved in 2003 that

they could re-interpret classic African American standards with a consummate ease, infusing songs like “Now is the time” by

Charlie Parker, with a joyous spontaneity. The trio hoped to reproduce that unbridled energy in the follow-up album, but the

result is uneven as the virtuosic qualities of each artist fails to gell on interpretations like “Rhythm’ning” (composed by

Thelonious Monk), a miasmic “La mer” and the flat composition “Djame”. Fortunately, songs like “Sunugal”, “Folly” and the

luscious closing track “Djanya” prove what pedigree these three fine musicians have, particularly when they are joined by the

“Prince” of the calabash, Mamadou Koné. Ten of the twelve songs are originals composed during the long tours the band have been

involved in. The refined touch of Diabaté’s piano keys and rippling swing of the 32 kora strings tweaked by Diawara provide

a solid backbone for the album’s most successful songs. When the band swings into spontaneous motion there is a wonderful

freedom and joy that is released, confirming the rich African heritage at the root of jazz. The bridge the three West African

artists have built over the Atlantic is the result of the three-year-old vision of producer Gilbert Castro. For years before,

he had produced albums for Diawara, bringing to the fore the musician’s acoustic adaptability and singing ability. In 2003,

Castro allied these skills with the aesthetic touch that Diabaté has picked up over the years with the likes of Manu Dibango,

Sekouba Bambino, Salif Keita and Papa Wemba. The griot percussions of Moussa Cissoko had also found their place in the

Afro-European scene as the Senegalese backed top musicians such as Ray Léma, Jacques Higelin, Bernard Lavilliers and groups

like the Afro Celt Sound System. Castro has not hesitated in encouraging Cissoko to take a more central role in these

semi-improvised recordings, providing complex and rapid-fire polyrhythms that give the album a dancy touch. But it is when

the musicians allow the Mandingo traditions that all three are so well versed in to take off - slightly pushing the classic

jazz mode to the side - that “Part two” develops an exciting originality of its own.

1.Djame

2.Folly

3.Sunugal

4.Dadiou

5.Rythm'ning

6.Sindi

7.N'na

8.Seyo

9.Teranga

10.La mer

11.Yakar

12.Djanya

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