Jimbasing - Music

Jimbasing by Herbie Hancock And Foday Musa Suso

Herbie Hancock And Foday Musa Suso

Artist Biography For Herbie Hancock And Foday Musa Suso

Village Life Is An Album By Jazz Pianist Herbie Hancock And Foday Musa Suso Recorded Live In The Studio In Japan In 1985. "This Quiet Lovely Record In Which The Gambian Kora Virtuoso Foday Musa Suso Is Given Equal Billing Was Generally Ignored When It Came Out Probably Because It Fit No One's Preconceived Idioms -- Be They Jazz Funk MTV Or Even World Music. The Only Performers Are Hancock On A Detunable Yamaha DX-1 Synthesizer And Drum Machine And Suso Spinning His Webs Of Delicate Sound On The Zither-Like Kora Vocalizing A Bit And Playing A Talking Drum -- All In Real Time In A Tokyo Studio. The Results Are Absolutely Mesmerizing With Herbie Aligning Himself Perfectly Within Suso's Unusual Complex Rhythmic Conceptions And Folk-Like Harmonies. On The 20-Minute "Kanatente " Hancock Does Introduce Some Of His Own Advanced Harmonic Ideas And He Contrasts And Interweaves Them With Suso's Deceptively Simple Lines In A Splendid Jam Session That Eventually Ends In A Dance That Can Only Be Described As Gambian Funk. This Music Generates The Same Feeling Of Ecstatic Well-Being As An Indian Raga -- And Even Hardcore Jazz Fans May Find Themselves Seduced Against Their Will. -Richard S. Ginell" Herbie Hancock Keyboards Foday Musa Suso Kora Talking Drum Vocals