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Live at the Cully Jazz festival

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Monty Alexander was born in Kingston, Jamaica, 80 years ago on D-Day, when the Americans landed in France to end World War II. The family emigrated to Florida, where the young pianist made friends with jazz greats such as Ray Brown, Milt Jackson and Miles Davis, with whom he shared a love of boxing matches.&nbsp; Monty Alexander became famous for his trio shows and his Caribbean rhythms, steeped in jazz and blues, which occasionally shifted to the reggae of Bob Marley, his compatriot and one year his junior. The Monty Alexander Trio will perform at the Cully Jazz festival with Luke Sellick&nbsp;on double bass and Jason Brown on drums. --- For more information, visit <a href="https://www.montyalexander.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">MontyAlexander</a>'s official website.

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Monty Alexander Trio | Cully Jazz festival, Switzerland - April 2024

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My selection of music records

Title record

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Harlem-Kingston Express - Motéma (US) 2011

No Woman No Cry

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D Day- Peewee Productions (FR) 2023

Day-O

Harlem-Kingston Express

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Live at the Blues Rules Crissier Festival

Justina Lee Brown, from Lagos City, Nigeria, Swiss Blues Award 2024, discovered blues and soul music when she arrived in Europe.&nbsp; We went to see Justina Lee Brown at the Blues Rules Crissier Festival 2023 and 2024. In 2024, pregnant with her first child, she is touring in support of her latest album Lost Child, a vibrant ode to all the children of Africa who die of poverty due to colonialism and corruption (1). As she says on stage, «I'm not black and I don't have to prove it. I belong to the human race with all its beautiful colors». --- (1)&nbsp;The album sales are dedicated to her JLB Care Foundation. For more information, visit <a href="https://justinaleebrown.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Justina Lee Brown</a> official website.

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Justina Lee Brown

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Justina Lee Brown | Blues Rules Crissier Festival - June 2024

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Justina Lee Brown | Blues Rules Crissier Festival - June 2023

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Black & White Feeling - 2016 

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Lost Child - 2023

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Live at the Cully Jazz Festival

Black Lives From Generation to Generation is a collective project initiated during the pandemic, a musical and multicultural response to racism and police violence in the USA. The group is made up of around fifteen musicians, whose composition may vary slightly during the course of the tour, bringing together different facets of African-American music such as hip-hop, funk, rock and blues.&nbsp; The line-up we saw at the Cully Jazz Festival in April 2024 consisted of 13 musicians, including guest stars Raul Midón (gtr, voc) and Catherine Russell (voc).

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The group from left to right: Catherine Russell (voc), Stefany Calembert (prod), DJ Grazzhoppa (mix), Tutu Poane (voc), Reggie Washington (bass), Gene Lake (drms), Federico Gonzales Peña (key), Marque Gilmore (drms), Jacques Schwarz-Bart (sax), Jean-Paul Bourelly (gtr, voc), Adam Falcon (gtr, voc), Raul Midón (gtr, voc), Sharrif Simmons (voc), David Gilmore (gtr)&nbsp;

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Jacques Schwarz-Bart (sax), Catherine Russell (voc), Adam Falcon (gtr, voc), Reggie Washington (bass)

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Jacques Schwartz-Bart (sax)

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Jean-Paul Bourelly (gtr, voc)

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Raul Midón (gtr, voc), Tutu Puoane (voc)

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People Of Earth - Jammin’ Colors (FR) 2024

Think / Black Lives

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i, too, am colored, in black & white - Ghetto Drum (US) 1999

The Infinite (na-Na) / Adam Falcon

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The Harlem Suite - Ropeadobe (US) 2023

Sun Salutation / Jacques Schwarz-Bart

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Syntheses - Decca (US) 2009

Everyone Deserves A Second Chance / Raul Midon

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Wraped in Rythm, Vol.1 - Soul Factory (BEL) 2024

Illicit Love / Tutu Puoane

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Harlem On My Mind - Jazz Village (US) 2016

Talk to Me / Catherine Russell

From Generation to Generation

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Black Lives

Rene Miller is busking the blues on the street like 100 years ago

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Ronnie Scott's jazz club, London (UK), September 1978 . → Fine Art Prints on professional Ilford pearl photo paper → Limited edition of 100, hand numbered and signed on back → Sold unframed; shipping fees offered → All images are available to buy as print on request

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Horace Silver #4-3-6

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Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland, July 1979 . → Fine Art Prints on professional Ilford pearl photo paper → Limited edition of 100, hand numbered and signed on back → Sold unframed; shipping fees offered → All images are available to buy as print on request

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Open air festival African Roots, Leysin, Switzerland, August 1981 . → Fine Art Prints on professional Ilford pearl photo paper → Limited edition of 100, hand numbered and signed on back → Sold unframed; shipping fees offered → All images are available to buy as print on request

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Hard bop, new thing, soul jazz, jazz fusion, spiritual jazz, jazz funk - Since the 1950s, powerful vibrations followed one another until now between the USA, Europe and Japan, via Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean islands

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«&nbsp;For our purposes I think it is enough to say that the blues came out from Mississippi, sniffed around in Memphis and then settled in Chicago where it is more likely it will peacefully live out the rest of its days. » [Peter Guralnick, Feel Like Going Home, 1971]

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Caribbean and African music gradually matured in small circles in London, Paris and New York City in the 1960s and 1970s to become very popular in Europe a decade later

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