Manu Dibango «Manu Joue Sidney Bechet, Hommage à la Nouvelle Orléans » featuring Dany Doriz. Cristal Records, March 2007.
In his teenage years, black American jazz icons such as Louis Armstrong and Sydney Bechet had been a powerful motivating force in Manu's life. And in March 2007, the Cameroonian musician paid his own tribute to Bechet, the renowned composer and musician from New Orleans, with a pure jazz opus entitled "Manu Dibango joue Sydney Bechet." RFI
Cristal Records Presentation
Symbol of the World-Music since he travelled all around the world, as well for his music as for his humanitarian actions, Manu Dibango represents the emergence of the World-Music. He likes Gospel which reminds him his childhood and which is the ambassador of the Acid-jazz birth. Lately, his musical nomadism brought him to cooperate with classical orchestras such as the Metropole orchestra of Rotterdam, and more recently with the orchestra of Paris.
50 years after Manu Dibango begins music, he comes to his first loves, the jazz music, releasing a tribute album to Sidney Bechet, native to New Orleans bayou. A tribute to the « Cousin Sidney's »forgotten music, which is revisited by Manu Dibango in collaboration with the vibes player Dany Doriz. The music is characterized by tones coming from original instruments, and by interpretations which are full of humor and poetry : from « Petite fleur » to « Oignons », « Si tu vois ma mère », « Les rues d'Antibes »... A real antidepressant administered by high-level musicians, what a bliss !
Click here to view a video from the new album.
Click here for a complete Manu Dibango discography in pdf format.
The album can be purchased online from Amazon France.
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