WNYC; Worlds of Music; A World of Percussion
- Collection
- WNYC
- Series
- Worlds of Music
- Episode
- A World of Percussion
- Producing Organization
- World Music Institute
- WNYC (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
- Contributing Organization
- WNYC (New York, New York)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/80-2908mb4g
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- Description
- Program Description
- The World Music Institute presents IMPROVISATIONS Saturday, June 3, 1989 8:00 PM DON CHERRY ZAKIR HUSSAIN SHANKAR FODAY MUSA SUSO ADAM RUDOLPH MAR AND MAGATTE ARTO TUNCBOYACIYAN Symphony Space 2537 Broadway, New York City This concert is made possible in part by public funds made available by the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Funding was also provided by the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust. A World of Percussion Project Director - Robert H. Browning Artistic Director - Don Cherry Coordinator - Adam Rudolph 1 This is the fourth concert in our annual IMPROVISATIONS festival and is the centerpiece of this year's festival. In putting together A World of Percussion I was looking towards making IMPROVISATIONS a more cohesive festival. When Don Cherry came to me a year ago and suggested a concert centered around percussion things began to come together. This year's festival has featured percussion as a major component - from homemade gamelan instruments (Gamelan Son of Lion.) to Indian santoor (hammered dulcimer) - from Jerome Cooper's one-man percussion band to Hassan Hakraoun's sintir (Moroccan Gnawa skin-faced lute) - from Zakir Hussair's tabla to Adam Rudolph's congas. Tonight's concert is the centerpiece of the festival and feature's musicians from a variety of backgrounds. One of the great difficulties in putting together such a program is getting together all of the artists at one time for planning and rehearsals. Since this task proved almost impossible due to the busy schedules of most of the performers and the fact that they live in various parts of the country, we chose artists that had, for the most part, worked together in various combinations in concert or on record. The obvious focus for such a project was the work of Don Cherry. Since the early 1960s Don has been a leader and innovator in performing with and bringing together artists of diverse traditions and disciplines. More than anyone he has helped to realise the vision of global communication through music that was the aspiration of such great African-American composer/musicians as John Coltrane and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. He has worked with most of the artists featured in tonight's program. As guest artist on the Mandingo Griot Society's first album he worked with Foday Musa Suso, a 'Jali' (griot) from Gambia and with Adam Rudolph, a multi percussionist who had long admired him (Cherry). Along with Nana Vasconcelos (who unfortunately was not able to be here tonight) he has worked with the virtuoso Indian musicians Shankar and Zakir Hussain as well as with the Armenian drummer Arto Tuncboyaciyan. While this Kill be the first time any of tonight's soloists have worked with the master drummers Mar and Magatte they are all familiar with West African drumming through their various associations with Babatunde Olatunji, Ayibe Dieng and others. While this concert centers around the rhythms of North India and West Africa with a touch of the Middle East, I hope that next year we will be able to cover a much wider geographical dispersion - perhaps including Brazil, Cuba, Southern Africa, North Africa and Korea. This concert should thus be seen as a prototype for future expansion. I would like to thank all the musicians for the time they have dedicated to this project. I would like also to thank the music programs of the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts as well as the Mary Flagler Cary Trust for their financial support. Finally I would like to thank the Friends of the World Music Institute - your individual contributions are so important in bringing projects such as this to fruition. And to those of you who have not yet joined us - please do so - this is your opportunity to help build bridges between people- to break down the barriers that keep us apart- to regain that spiritual nourishment that is so important to the health and well-being of the individual and society at large. Robert H. Browning The Artists Don Cherry is an artist of legendary status in the African-American improvisational tradition. For over 25 years he has researched and experimented with Asian, African and Latin American genres and instruments and had a considerable influence on younger musicians-. He has performed with Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, and Lou Reed, to name but a few, and collaborated with many non-Western musicians. Since the 1960s he has led his own groups and toured extensively throughout the United States, Europe, Japan, West Africa and the Caribbean. He has appeared on well over 100 recordings over the past three decades. Zakir Hussain is regarded as the leading tabla player of his generation. Son and disciple of the famed Alia Rakha (who was Ravi Shankar's accompanist for many years), he has worked with nearly all of India's major classical musicians and dancers, such as Shivkumar Sharma, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Pandit Jasraj, Sitara Devi and Durgalal. He has also collaborated with many Western musicians, such as John McLaughlin with whom he founded Shakti, and co-starred with Julie Christie in the Merchant-Ivory film "Heat and Dust." Master violinist Shankar has been a pioneer in popularizing South Indian music in the West and has recorded albums of both classical Indian music and jazz fusion for ECM. He was one of the founding members (along with John McLaughlin and Zakir Hussain) of Shakti, the first successful group to blend both Eastern and Western traditions. He is well known for his work with the Mahavishnu Orchestra and currently leads The Epidemics. As composer and performer, he has worked with such artists as Peter Gabriel, Lou Reed, Talking Heads, Yoko Ono. Jali (griot - oral historian, praise singer) Foday Musa Suso is a virtuoso kora (21-stringed harp/lute) player from one of the most renowned musical families of the Gambia. Living in the United States since 1977, he was a founding member of the Mandingo Griot Society, on ensemble that blends African and African-American idioms. In addition to his recordings and performances of music from Gambia and the Mandingo Griot Society, he is known for his work with Herbie Hancock and Philip Glass. Composer and percussionist Adam Rudolph is originally from Chicago and has performed in the United States and Europe with Yusef Lateef, Herbie Hancock, Jon Hassell, Don Cherry, Badal Roy and Hassan Hakmoun, among others. He is a co-founder with Jali Foday Musa Suso of the Mandingo Griot Society and remains percussionist with that group. He was also a co-founder in 1979 of the world music improvisational ensemble Eternal Wind. He teaches cross-cultural improvisation at California Institute of the Arts and has recorded for Capitol, Warner Brothers, Flying Fish and Windham Hill. Mar and Magatte, two Senegalese percussionists, have worked with many of Senegal's major pop bands and dance troupes. Mar Gueye studied with his uncle, master drummer Doudou N'Diaye Rose, with whom he performed at wed dings, funerals and social parties. He toured Europe and Africa with Ballet D'Afrique Noire and began playing with the National Ballet in 1982 with Magatte, whom he had known since childhood. He also performed with Toure Kunda and Le Xalam, and recently with Youssou N'Dour. Magatte Fall, from a family of master musicians, began playing the talking drum at age 5. He performed with the pop group Super Diamano and also toured with the National Ballet of Senegal in Europe, Japan, and North and South America. He served as artistic and choreographic director for the National Ballet from 1981 to 1988 when he came to New York. He also recorded with Ryuichi Sakamoto, performed with Youssou N'Dour and was a featured artist in Bob Telson's "The Warrior Ant" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Arto Tuncboyaciyan, a native Armenian, was born in Turkey. He began playing music professionally at the age of 11, and has since toured Europe often, both as a soloist and as a collaborator with other artists, including his brother Onno.
- Description
- No other instrument but the drum is truly universally indigenous. In every region of the world, rhythms dance to its indestructible beat. We present drum stories from all over, with "frame" drummer Glen Velez, Brazilian master percussionist Nana Vaconcelos, Malian drummer Yaya Diallo, with special guest and multi-instrumentalist, the late Don Cherry.
- Topics
- Music
- Rights
- PRI - WORLD MUSIC INSTITUTE - WNYC
- Media type
- Sound
- Duration
- 00:58:45
- Credits
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Director: Browning, Robert H.
Director: Cherry, Don
Engineer: Haber, Edward
Engineer: Shultis, Stephen
Other: Rudolph, Adam
Performer: Cherry, Don
Performer: Hussain, Zakir, 1951-
Performer: Shankar, Lakshminarayana, 1950-
Performer: Suso, Foday Musa
Performer: Rudolph, Adam
Performer: Gueye, Mar
Performer: Fall, Magatte
Performer: Tuncboyaci, Arto
Producing Organization: World Music Institute
Producing Organization: WNYC (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
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- Citations
- Chicago: “WNYC; Worlds of Music; A World of Percussion,” WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 8, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-2908mb4g.
- MLA: “WNYC; Worlds of Music; A World of Percussion.” WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 8, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-2908mb4g>.
- APA: WNYC; Worlds of Music; A World of Percussion. Boston, MA: WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-2908mb4g