Tamma With Don Cherry & Ed Blackwell

Tamma with Don Cherry & Ed Blackwell - Tamma (1984) {ODIN NJ 4014-2 rel 1997}
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© 1984, 1997 Odin Records | ODIN NJ 4014-2
Jazz / World Fusion / Afro-Fusion / World Music

Tamma (which means talking drum in Gambian) is a percussion and horn jazz group founded by Gambian master drummer Miki N'Doye and brought to Norway where he enlisted the aid of that country's musicians in forming an open-ended music that would engage European cultures in the music of the African Diaspora. A quintet, they feature a proper trap kit drummer, saxophonist, trumpet, an electric bassist, and N'Doye. All members play some percussion and sing (more like chant). They make an ethereal, moody, high-lonesome kind of rhythm-based Afro-jazz. Performing live at the Mode International Jazz Festival, they were joined for two days by the late trumpeter and douzongouni player (African guitar), and the late drummer Ed Blackwell both men at that time were members of Old and New Dreams and former bandmates in the Ornette Coleman Quartet.