The
pianist, composer, and bandleader Randy Weston is one of the world’s
most influential jazz musicians and a remarkable storyteller whose
career has spanned five continents and more than six decades. Packed
with fascinating anecdotes, African Rhythms
is Weston’s life story, as told by him to the music journalist Willard
Jenkins. It encompasses Weston’s childhood in Brooklyn’s
Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood—where his parents and other members of
their generation imbued him with pride in his African heritage—and his
introduction to jazz and early years as a musician in the artistic
ferment of mid-twentieth-century New York. His music has taken him
around the world: he has performed in eighteen African countries, in
Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines, in the Canterbury Cathedral, and at
the grand opening of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina: The New Library of
Alexandria. Africa is at the core of Weston’s music and spirituality. He
has traversed the continent on a continuous quest to learn about its
musical traditions, produced its first major jazz festival, and lived
for years in Morocco, where he opened a popular jazz club, the African
Rhythms Club, in Tangier.
Weston’s narrative is replete with tales of the people he has met and befriended, and with whom he has worked. He describes his unique partnerships with Langston Hughes, the musician and arranger Melba Liston, and the jazz scholar Marshall Stearns, as well as his friendships and collaborations with Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, Thelonious Monk, Billy Strayhorn, Max Roach, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, the novelist Paul Bowles, the Cuban percussionist Candido Camero, the Ghanaian jazz artist Kofi Ghanaba, the Gnawa musicians of Morocco, and many others. With African Rhythms, an international jazz virtuoso continues to create cultural history.
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