Randy Weston

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In Memory Of 00:00 Tools
Little Niles 00:00 Tools
Berkshire Blues 00:00 Tools
African Cookbook 00:00 Tools
A Ballad 00:00 Tools
Niger Mambo 00:00 Tools
Zulu 00:00 Tools
Hi-Fly 00:00 Tools
Ifrane 00:00 Tools
Portrait Of Vivian 00:00 Tools
Earth Birth 00:00 Tools
The Shang 00:00 Tools
Marrakech Blues 00:00 Tools
Pam's Waltz 00:00 Tools
Night in Medina 00:00 Tools
Blues For Five Reasons 00:00 Tools
Congolese Children 00:00 Tools
Willie's Tune 00:00 Tools
Babe's Blues 00:00 Tools
The Last Day 00:00 Tools
Sweet Meat 00:00 Tools
Ganawa (Blue Moses) 00:00 Tools
Two Different Ways To Play The Blues 00:00 Tools
Jamaica East 00:00 Tools
Con Alma 00:00 Tools
Lalla Mira (Part II) 00:00 Tools
Introducing To Hag'Houge And Strings Bass 00:00 Tools
Blue Moses 00:00 Tools
Where 00:00 Tools
Mystery of Love 00:00 Tools
Tanjah 00:00 Tools
Receiving The Spirit 00:00 Tools
Marrakesh Blues 00:00 Tools
The Call 00:00 Tools
African Sunrise 00:00 Tools
Blues For Elma Lewis 00:00 Tools
The Healers 00:00 Tools
In The Cool Of The Evening 00:00 Tools
Let's Climb A Hill 00:00 Tools
C.W. Blues 00:00 Tools
Lisa Lovely 00:00 Tools
Saucer Eyes 00:00 Tools
Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen 00:00 Tools
Loose Wing 00:00 Tools
Tangier Bay 00:00 Tools
Hi Fly 00:00 Tools
Portrait Of Billie Holiday 06:53 Tools
Afro Black 00:00 Tools
Portrait of Frank Edward Weston 00:00 Tools
African Nite 00:00 Tools
Waltz For Sweet Cakes 00:00 Tools
Sweat Meat (first alternative mix) 00:00 Tools
Again 00:00 Tools
Blues To Africa 00:00 Tools
Jejouka 00:00 Tools
Caban Bamboo Highlife 00:00 Tools
La Elaha-Ella Allah/Morad Allah 00:00 Tools
A Night In Medina 00:00 Tools
Valse Triste Valse 00:00 Tools
Blues for CB 00:00 Tools
Penny Packer Blues 00:00 Tools
Sweet Meat (second alternative mix) 00:00 Tools
The Seventh Queen 00:00 Tools
Portrait Of Dizzy 00:00 Tools
Ballad For T. 00:00 Tools
African Village Bedford-Stuyvesant 1 00:00 Tools
Lagos 00:00 Tools
Portrait Of Billy Holiday 00:00 Tools
A Prayer For Us All 00:00 Tools
Out Of The Past 00:00 Tools
Uli Shrine 00:00 Tools
Fourth Movement: Kucheza Blues 00:00 Tools
Yubadee 00:00 Tools
Little Susan 00:00 Tools
Lotus Blossom 00:00 Tools
The Jitterbug Waltz 00:00 Tools
Nice Ice 00:00 Tools
Jajouka 00:00 Tools
Where? 00:00 Tools
We'll Be Together Again 00:00 Tools
Summertime 00:00 Tools
Bass Knows 00:00 Tools
The Beauty Of It All 00:00 Tools
Fire Down There 00:00 Tools
Functional 00:00 Tools
Kucheza Blues 00:00 Tools
Portrait Of Myriam Makeba 00:00 Tools
Chalabati 00:00 Tools
First Movement: Uhuru Kwanza 00:00 Tools
Cocktails for Two 00:00 Tools
Serenade in Blue 00:00 Tools
Under Blunder 00:00 Tools
The Shang - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
The Gathering 00:00 Tools
Dark Eyes 00:00 Tools
F.E.W. Blues 00:00 Tools
The Shrine 00:00 Tools
Boram Xam Xam 00:00 Tools
This Can't be Love 00:00 Tools
I Can't Get Started With You 00:00 Tools
The Man i Love 00:00 Tools
A Night In Mabari 00:00 Tools
Isis 00:00 Tools
Lifetime 00:00 Tools
Twelfth Street Rag 00:00 Tools
Once In A While 00:00 Tools
Blues To Senegal 00:00 Tools
Solemn Meditation 00:00 Tools
Uhuru Kwanza 00:00 Tools
3rd Movement: Bantu 00:00 Tools
It's All Right With Me 00:00 Tools
Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me 00:00 Tools
Jahjuka 00:00 Tools
Roots of the Nile 00:00 Tools
2nd Movement: African Lady 00:00 Tools
Body And Soul 00:00 Tools
Uncle Neemo 00:00 Tools
Beef Blues Stew 00:00 Tools
Star Crossed Lovers 00:00 Tools
Prayer Blues 00:00 Tools
The Healers - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Casbah Kids 00:00 Tools
I Got Rhythm 00:00 Tools
African Village Bedford-Stuyvesant 2 00:00 Tools
You Go To My Head 00:00 Tools
Medley The Healers, Blue Moses, Little Nile, Root of the Nile 00:00 Tools
Gingerbread 00:00 Tools
Ancient Future 00:00 Tools
Honeysuckle Rose 00:00 Tools
Lalla Mira 00:00 Tools
Get Happy 00:00 Tools
Well You Needn't 00:00 Tools
African Village Bedford Stuyvesant 1 00:00 Tools
Bantu 00:00 Tools
Kasbah Kids 00:00 Tools
Fe-Double-U Blues 00:00 Tools
Where Are You 00:00 Tools
Heaven 00:00 Tools
Samba Bassa 00:00 Tools
Chessman's Delight 00:00 Tools
Ballad for T 00:00 Tools
I've Got You Under My Skin 00:00 Tools
Spot Five Blues 00:00 Tools
C-Jam Blues 00:00 Tools
Hold 'Em Joe 00:00 Tools
Blue Mood 00:00 Tools
Come Sunday 00:00 Tools
Lover 00:00 Tools
African Village Bedford Stuyvesant 2 00:00 Tools
If You Could See Me Now 00:00 Tools
C Jam Blues 00:00 Tools
Little Girl Blue 00:00 Tools
Caravan 00:00 Tools
El Wali Sidi Mimoun 00:00 Tools
Run Joe 00:00 Tools
Softness 00:00 Tools
Intro: Uhuru Kwanza 00:00 Tools
Bambara 00:00 Tools
Portrait Of Oum Keltoum 00:00 Tools
Chalabati Blues 00:00 Tools
In The Still Of The Night 00:00 Tools
A Theme For Teddy 00:00 Tools
High Fly 00:00 Tools
Chano Pozo 00:00 Tools
African Village/Bedford Stuyvesant 00:00 Tools
Introduction: Uhuru Kwanza 00:00 Tools
Creation 00:00 Tools
Just One Of Those Things 00:00 Tools
Sweet Sue 00:00 Tools
Theme: Solemn Meditation 00:00 Tools
Anu Anu 00:00 Tools
Double Duke Pt. 2 00:00 Tools
I Get A Kick Out Of You 00:00 Tools
Introduction: Uhuru Kwanza (Part One) 00:00 Tools
Harvard Blues 00:00 Tools
PCN 00:00 Tools
Ellington Tusk 00:00 Tools
Portrait of Cheikh Anta Diop 00:00 Tools
How High the Moon 00:00 Tools
Ruby My Dear 00:00 Tools
Kom Ombo 00:00 Tools
Blue in Tunisia 00:00 Tools
In Memory Of - Eng 21-22 Mai 1973 New York 00:00 Tools
African Lady 00:00 Tools
Blues For Strayhorn 00:00 Tools
These Foolish Things 00:00 Tools
Get Out Of Town 00:00 Tools
Third Movement: Bantu 00:00 Tools
Sahel 00:00 Tools
Night And Day 00:00 Tools
1st Movement: Uhuru Kwanza (Part Two) 00:00 Tools
It Don't Mean A Thing 00:00 Tools
C.W Blues 00:00 Tools
Where Are You? 00:00 Tools
Cry Me Not 00:00 Tools
Second Movement: African Lady 00:00 Tools
The Three Pyramids And The Sophinx 00:00 Tools
Just A Riff 00:00 Tools
Love, The Mystery of 00:00 Tools
J.K. Blues 00:00 Tools
Fly Hi 00:00 Tools
I Love You 00:00 Tools
Uncle Nemo 00:00 Tools
Sepia Panorama 00:00 Tools
C.B. Blues 00:00 Tools
Misterioso 00:00 Tools
204 00:00 Tools
Stormy Weather 00:00 Tools
Don't Blame Me 00:00 Tools
I Mean You 00:00 Tools
The Call - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
African Village Bedford Stuyvesant 1 - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Honk Honk 00:00 Tools
In Memory Of (Eng 21-22 Mai 1973 New York) 00:00 Tools
Portrait Of Patsy J 00:00 Tools
La Voix Errrante: Sorie/Folinho Rejale/Ahayana Wayi/Bokarli Ana 00:00 Tools
Double Duke Pt. 1 00:00 Tools
What Is This Thing Called Love 00:00 Tools
Sketch of a Melba 00:00 Tools
Introduction 00:00 Tools
Heaven (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Tehuti 00:00 Tools
Who Lnow Them? 00:00 Tools
Limbo Jazz 00:00 Tools
Three Blind Mice 00:00 Tools
The Three Pyramids And The Sphynx 00:00 Tools
In Memory Of (1963) 00:00 Tools
I Know Your Kind 00:00 Tools
Chromatic Love Affair 00:00 Tools
The Bridge 00:00 Tools
African Night 00:00 Tools
In A Little Spanish Town 00:00 Tools
The Mystery Of Love 00:00 Tools
Introduction To Hag'Houge And Strings Bass 00:00 Tools
Purple Gazelle 00:00 Tools
Sad Beauty Blues 00:00 Tools
Carnival 00:00 Tools
Intro 00:00 Tools
Uhuru Kwansa 00:00 Tools
Wig Loose 00:00 Tools
Sweet Sue, Just You 00:00 Tools
Blues Of Africa 00:00 Tools
African Cookbook - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Chalabati Blues - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Saucer Eye 00:00 Tools
In Memory Of - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Tamashii 00:00 Tools
Route of the Nile 00:00 Tools
Volcano 00:00 Tools
Caravan - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
The Healer 00:00 Tools
I Say Hello 00:00 Tools
The Nafs 00:00 Tools
Off Minor/Thelonious 00:00 Tools
The Seventh Queen - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Ifran 00:00 Tools
Blues For Elma Lewis - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
A Prayer For Us All - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Sweet Meat - Alt 1 00:00 Tools
African Village-Bedford Stuyvesant 00:00 Tools
Jus' Blues 00:00 Tools
Mystery Of Love - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Every Once In A While 00:00 Tools
Are You Ready, Gyp Watson? 00:00 Tools
African Sunrise - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Blue Moses - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Congolese Children - 2003 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
La Voix Errante 00:00 Tools
African Village Bedford-Stuyvesant 2 - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Creation - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Well You Need't 00:00 Tools
A Ballad - Get Happy, 1955 00:00 Tools
Sweet Meat (1st Alt.) 00:00 Tools
Perdido (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Sketch Of Melba 00:00 Tools
La Elaha-Ella-Allah / Morad Allah - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
The Jitterbug Waltz - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
MARAKESH BLUES 00:00 Tools
Sad Beauty Blues - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Heaven - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Little Miles 00:00 Tools
Once Knew A Fella 00:00 Tools
We're Ladies 00:00 Tools
Afro-Black 00:00 Tools
In Memory Of (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Sweet Meat (2nd Alt.) 00:00 Tools
Ganawa In Paris 00:00 Tools
Blues To Be There 00:00 Tools
The Shang (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Sound Playing: Bermaryo/Fanyro/Merkadi/Yobady/Ya la la/Concoba/Tembara/ 00:00 Tools
In the Still of the Night - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Volcano - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
In The Cool Of The Evening - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Anyone Would Love You 00:00 Tools
I Get a Kick out If You (feat. Sam Gill) [Cole Porter in a Modern Mood, 1954] 00:00 Tools
Portrain of Oum Keltoum 00:00 Tools
The Nafs - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Sweet Meat - Alt 2 00:00 Tools
Solemn Meditation - The Randy Weston Trio, 1955 00:00 Tools
Portrait Of Frank Edward Weston - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Anu Anu - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
African Village Bedford Stuyvesant 00:00 Tools
Niger Mambo - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Portrait Of Cheikh Anta Diop - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Little Niles - Little Niles 00:00 Tools
The Shrine - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Boram Xam Xam - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Perdido 00:00 Tools
Prayer Blues - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Penny Packer Blues - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Lisa Lovely - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Limbo Jazz - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Intro by Jimmy Lyons 00:00 Tools
Shang 00:00 Tools
In a Spanish Town 00:00 Tools
Blues For Strayhorn - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
We're Ladies - Destry Rides Again 00:00 Tools
Jimmy Lyons Intro 00:00 Tools
C Jam Blues - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Medley: The Healers/Blue Moses/Little Nile/Root of the Nile 00:00 Tools
Fair Warning 00:00 Tools
J K Blues 00:00 Tools
African Village Bedford - Stuyvesant 2 00:00 Tools
What Is This Thing Called Love? 00:00 Tools
Sepia Panorama - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Who Know Them? 00:00 Tools
Well You Needn T - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Khadesha 00:00 Tools
Jahjûka 00:00 Tools
Portrait Of Billie Holiday - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Sound Playing 00:00 Tools
Sweet Sue - The Randy Weston Trio, 1955 00:00 Tools
Get out of Town - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Portrait Of Frank Edward Weston (CD) 00:00 Tools
Sweet Sue - Remastered 00:00 Tools
J & K Blues 00:00 Tools
Sweet Sue, Just Fun 00:00 Tools
The Shang [Instrumental] 00:00 Tools
Ruby, My Dear 00:00 Tools
A Little Spanish Town 00:00 Tools
J.K. Blues - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Ruby My Dear - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Fair Warning - Destry Rides Again 00:00 Tools
Pam's Waltz - Little Niles 00:00 Tools
Earth Birth - Little Niles 00:00 Tools
Pam's Waltz - The Randy Weston Trio, 1955 00:00 Tools
Boram Xam Xam (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
I Get a Kick out of You - Remastered 00:00 Tools
I Know Your Kind - Destry Rides Again 00:00 Tools
Little Niles - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Who Know Them 00:00 Tools
Anyone Would Love You - Destry Rides Again 00:00 Tools
Rose Lovejoy of Paradise Alley - Destry Rides Again 00:00 Tools
Earth Birth - Little Niles Album Version 00:00 Tools
That Ring on the Finger - Destry Rides Again 00:00 Tools
Nice Ice - Little Niles 00:00 Tools
African Night - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Blues For Strayhorn (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
African Night (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Well, You Needn't 00:00 Tools
Blue Moses (CD) 00:00 Tools
In Memory Of - 2003 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
The Man I Love - Remastered 00:00 Tools
I've Got You Under My Skin - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Medley: The Healers / Blue Moses / Little Nile / Root Of The Nile 00:00 Tools
Serenade in Blue - Remastered 00:00 Tools
I Can't Get Started with You - Remastered 00:00 Tools
If You Could See Me Now - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Sound Playing: Bermaryo/Fanyro/Merkadi/Yobady/Ya la la/Concoba/Tembara 00:00 Tools
Misterioso - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
African Cookbook (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Get out of Town - Cole Porter in a Modern Mood, 1954 00:00 Tools
Are You Ready Gyp Watson? - Destry Rides Again 00:00 Tools
Berkshire Blues - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
I Mean You - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
African Sunrise (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Little Susan - Little Niles 00:00 Tools
Recieving The Spirit 00:00 Tools
African Sunrise (CD) 00:00 Tools
Berkshire Blues (CD) 00:00 Tools
Route Of The Nile (CD) 00:00 Tools
Ganawa 00:00 Tools
Don't Bame Me 00:00 Tools
Earth Birth II 00:00 Tools
Ganawa In Paris - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Functional - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Two Different Ways To Play The Blues - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
I Say Hello - Destry Rides Again 00:00 Tools
Off Minor Thelonious - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Again - The Randy Weston Trio, 1955 00:00 Tools
Ruby My Dear (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Babe's Blues - Little Niles 00:00 Tools
Every Once in a While - Destry Rides Again 00:00 Tools
Once Knew a Fella - Destry Rides Again 00:00 Tools
Zulu - The Randy Weston Trio, 1955 00:00 Tools
Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Niger Mambo (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Caravan (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
JK Blues 00:00 Tools
Kucheza Blues - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Blues For Elma Lewis (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Uli Shrine - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
I Mean You (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Berkshire Blues - LP Version 00:00 Tools
I Get a Kick out If You - Cole Porter in a Modern Mood, 1954 00:00 Tools
Once I Knew a Fella - Destry Rides Again 00:00 Tools
In the Still of the Night - Cole Porter in a Modern Mood, 1954 00:00 Tools
Night and Day - Cole Porter in a Modern Mood, 1954 00:00 Tools
Just One of Those Things - Cole Porter in a Modern Mood, 1954 00:00 Tools
If You Could See Me Now - The Randy Weston Trio, 1955 00:00 Tools
The Shrine (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Portrait Of Cheikh Anta Diop (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
intro uhuru kwanza 00:00 Tools
Ballad For T (CD) 00:00 Tools
Tamashii (CD) 00:00 Tools
Love, The Mystery Of (CD) 00:00 Tools
African Village/Bed Stuy 00:00 Tools
Introduction to Hag'Haouge and String Bass 00:00 Tools
Third Movement - Bantu 00:00 Tools
Who Knows Them? 00:00 Tools
Fourth Movement- Kucheza Blues 00:00 Tools
I've Got You Under My Skin - Cole Porter in a Modern Mood, 1954 00:00 Tools
Tamashi 00:00 Tools
Limbo Jazz (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Let's Climb a Hill - Little Niles 00:00 Tools
Creation (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Chromatic Love Affair (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Night In Medina (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
High Fly (CD) 00:00 Tools
The Healer (CD) 00:00 Tools
Stormy Weather (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Berkshire Blues (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Earth Birth (Version 2) 00:00 Tools
Second Movement African Lady 00:00 Tools
The Three Pyramids And The Sphinx 00:00 Tools
Off Minor Thelonious (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You) 00:00 Tools
Chalabati Blues (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
"Solemn Meditation" 00:00 Tools
Portrait Of Vivian - LP Version 00:00 Tools
What Is This Thing Called Love - Cole Porter in a Modern Mood, 1954 00:00 Tools
I Love You - Cole Porter in a Modern Mood, 1954 00:00 Tools
Berkshire Blues (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Chromatic Love Affair - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
The Last Day - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Penny Packer Blues (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Little Girl Blue - Randy Weston Solo, 1956 00:00 Tools
Double Duke Pt 2 00:00 Tools
The Nafs (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Rose Lovejoy Of Paradise Alley 00:00 Tools
That Ring On Your Finger 00:00 Tools
Blues For Five Reasons (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Portrait Of Vivian (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Willie's Tune (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Congolese Children (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Misterioso (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Medley: The Healers/Blue Moses/Little Niles/Root Of The Nile 00:00 Tools
Lalla Mira Part 2 00:00 Tools
Valse Triste Valse - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
The Seventh Queen (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Sepia Panorama (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Mystery Of Love (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Earth Birth (Little Niles Album Version) 00:00 Tools
C Jam Blues (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Anu Anu (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Gnawa in Paris 00:00 Tools
The Icicle Song 00:00 Tools
Lalla Mira (Part 2) 00:00 Tools
We'll Be Together Again - Randy Weston Solo, 1956 00:00 Tools
African Cookbook (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Off Minor Thelonious 00:00 Tools
Niger Mambo - LP Version 00:00 Tools
Little Niles - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
Willie's Tune - LP Version 00:00 Tools
Lalla Mira Part 1 00:00 Tools
First Movement: Uhuru Kwanza (feat. Sahib Shihab) 00:00 Tools
Ballad For T - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Congolese Children - LP Version 00:00 Tools
A Chromatic Love Affair 00:00 Tools
First Movement Uhuru Kwanza (Part Two) 00:00 Tools
Well You Needn T 00:00 Tools
Fire Down There - Get Happy, 1955 00:00 Tools
Saucer Eyes (1960 Version) 00:00 Tools
Kucheza Blues (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Volcano (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Portrait Of Frank Edward Weston (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
African Village/Bedford-Stuyvesant 00:00 Tools
Blues For Elma Lewis [Instrumental] 00:00 Tools
That Ring On The Finger 00:00 Tools
Where Are You? - Get Happy, 1955 00:00 Tools
Bass Knows - Get Happy, 1955 00:00 Tools
African Village Bedford Stuyvesant 1 (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Well You Needn T (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
This Can't Be Love - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
Serenade in Blue - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
Portrait Of Dizzy - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Caban Bamboo Highlife - 2003 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
African Village / Bedford Stuyvesant 00:00 Tools
Introduction Uhuru Kwanza (Part One) 00:00 Tools
The Three Pyramids & The Sphinx 00:00 Tools
C-Jam Blues - Get Happy, 1955 00:00 Tools
African Village Bedford-Stuyvesant 2 (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Fourth Movement: Kucheza Blues - 2003 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Blues For Strayhorn [Instrumental] 00:00 Tools
Blues For Five Reasons [Instrumental] 00:00 Tools
Tribute to Duke Ellington 00:00 Tools
La Elaha-Ella-Allah / Morad Allah 00:00 Tools
Rose Lovejoy Of Paradise Valley 00:00 Tools
Off Minor / Thelonious 00:00 Tools
I Can't Get Started With You - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
The Man I Love - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
I Love Her 00:00 Tools
C-W Blues 00:00 Tools
Little Gril Blue 00:00 Tools
Lifetime - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
Lotus Blossom - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Blues For Five Reasons - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Introduction by Jimmy Lyons 00:00 Tools
Love The Mystery Of 00:00 Tools
Where? - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
African Cookbook - LP Version 00:00 Tools
Prayer Blues (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Blues For Five Reasons - LP Version 00:00 Tools
Dark Eyes (Aka Otchitchchornyia) - Get Happy, 1955 00:00 Tools
J.K. Blues (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Summertime - Get Happy, 1955 00:00 Tools
Little Niles/The Three Pyrmaids & The Sphinx 00:00 Tools
African Sunrise (Dizzy's 2010) 00:00 Tools
The Last Day (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Ganawa In Paris (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Intro: Uhuru Kwanza (Part One) 00:00 Tools
Are You Ready Gyp Watson? 00:00 Tools
African Village (Bedford Stuyvesant) 00:00 Tools
Chalabati Blues [Instrumental] 00:00 Tools
Ruby ma dear 00:00 Tools
The Icicle Song (w/ Randy Weston - piano) 00:00 Tools
Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
Sweet Meat (First Alternative Take) 00:00 Tools
First Movement: Uhuru Kwanza (Part Two) - 2003 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
These Foolish Things - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
Second Movement: African Lady (feat. Sahib Shihab) 00:00 Tools
Introduction (feat. Sahib Shihab) 00:00 Tools
Portrait Of Billie Holiday (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Little Miles (Randy Weston) 00:00 Tools
Niger Mambo - 2003 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Let's Climb A Hill - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Randy Weston - In Memory Of 00:00 Tools
The Jitterbug Waltz (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Softness - Randy Weston Solo, 1956 00:00 Tools
Blue Moses (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Uhuru Kwanza (Part One) - 2003 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Announcement By Allan Morrison 00:00 Tools
Earth Birth - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Lover - Randy Weston Solo, 1956 00:00 Tools
Get Happy - Get Happy, 1955 00:00 Tools
Fourth Movement - Kucheza Blues 00:00 Tools
Twelfth Street Rag - Get Happy, 1955 00:00 Tools
First Movement: Uhuru Kwanza (Part Two) 00:00 Tools
Niger Mambo (2003 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Fourth Movement Kucheza Blues 00:00 Tools
Niger Mambo (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
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Randy Weston (April 6, 1926 – September 1, 2018) was an American jazz pianist and composer. Weston's piano style owes much to Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk. Beginning in the 1950s, he worked often with trombonist and arranger Melba Liston. Described as "America's African Musical Ambassador", he has said, "What I do I do because it's about teaching and informing everyone about our most natural cultural phenomenon. It's really about Africa and her music. Randolph Edward Weston was born in 1926 to Vivian (née Moore) and Frank Weston and was raised in Brooklyn, New York, where his father owned a restaurant. His mother was from Virginia and his father was of Jamaican-Panamanian descent, a staunch Garveyite, who passed on the Pan-Africanist leader's Afrocentric, self-reliant values to his son. Weston studied classical piano as a child and took dance lessons. He graduated from Boys High School in Bedford-Stuyvesant; his father sent him there because it had a reputation for high standards. He took piano lessons from Atwell, because unlike his former piano teachers, Atwell allowed him to play songs outside the classical music repertoire. After serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, Weston ran a restaurant that was frequented by many jazz musicians. Among his piano heroes are Count Basie, Nat King Cole, Art Tatum , Duke Ellington, and his cousin Wynton Kelly. But Thelonious Monk made the biggest impact. In the late 1940s Weston began performing with Bullmoose Jackson, Frank Culley and Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson. He worked with Kenny Dorham in 1953 and in 1954 with Cecil Payne, before forming his own trio and quartet and releasing his debut recording as a leader in 1954, Cole Porter in a Modern Mood. He was voted New Star Pianist in Down Beat magazine's International Critics' Poll of 1955. Several fine albums followed, with the best being Little Niles near the end of that decade. Melba Liston provided excellent arrangements for a sextet playing several of Weston's best compositions: the title track, "Earth Birth", "Babe's Blues", and others. In the 1960s, Weston's music prominently incorporated African elements, as shown on the large-scale suite Uhuru Afrika (1960, with the participation of poet Langston Hughes) and Highlife (full title: Music from the New African Nations featuring the Highlife), the latter recorded in 1963, two years after Weston traveled for the first time to Africa, as part of a U.S. cultural delegation to Lagos, Nigeria. On both these albums he teamed up with the arranger Melba Liston. Uhuru Afrika, or Freedom Africa, is considered a historic landmark album that celebrates several new African countries obtaining their Independence. In addition, during these years his band often featured the tenor saxophonist Booker Ervin. Weston covered the Nigerian Bobby Benson's piece "Niger Mambo", which included Caribbean and jazz elements within a Highlife style, and has recorded this number many times throughout his career. In 1967 Weston traveled throughout Africa with a U.S. cultural delegation. The last stop of the tour was Morocco, where he decided to settle, running his African Rhythms Club in Tangier for five years, from 1967 to 1972. He has said, "We had everything in there from Chicago blues singers to singers from the Congo.... The whole idea was to trace African people wherever we are and what we do with music." In 1972 he produced Blue Moses for the CTI Records, a best-selling record on which he plays electric keyboard. As he explained in a July 2018 interview, "We were still living in Tangier, so my son and I came from Tangier to do the recording, but when I got there, Creed Taylor said his formula is electric piano. I was not happy with that, but it was my only hit record. People loved it." In the summer of 1975, he played at the Festival of Tabarka in Tunisia, North Africa (later known as the Tabarka Jazz Festival), accompanied by his son Azzedin Weston on percussion, with other notable acts including Dizzy Gillespie. For a long stretch Weston recorded infrequently on smaller record labels. He also made a two-CD recording The Spirits of Our Ancestors (recorded 1991; released 1992), which featured arrangements by his long-time collaborator Melba Liston. The album contained new, expanded versions of many of his well-known pieces and featured an ensemble including some African musicians, with guests such as Dizzy Gillespie and Pharoah Sanders also contributing. The music director was saxophonist Talib Kibwe (also known as T. K. Blue), who continues in that role to the present day. The Spirits of Our Ancestors has been described as "one of the most imaginative explorations of 'world jazz' ever recorded." Weston produced a series of albums in a variety of formats: solo, trio, mid-sized groups, and collaborations with the Gnawa musicians of Morocco. His most popular compositions include "Hi-Fly", which he has said was inspired by his experience of being 6' 8" and looking down at the ground, "Little Niles", named for his son, later known as Azzedine, "African Sunrise", "Blue Moses", "The Healers", and "Berkshire Blues". They have frequently been recorded by other prominent musicians. In 2002 he performed with bassist James Lewis for the inauguration of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt. During the samw year he with Gnawa musicians at Canterbury Cathedral at the invitation of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Weston also played at the Kamigamo Shrine in Japan in 2005. On June 21, 2009, he participated in a memorial at the Jazz Gallery in New York for Ghanaian drummer Kofi Ghanaba, whose composition "Love, the Mystery of..." Weston has used as his theme for some 40 years. In 2013, Sunnyside released Weston's album The Roots of the Blues, a duo session with tenor saxophonist Billy Harper. On November 17, 2014, as part of the London Jazz Festival, Weston played a duo concert with Harper at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Kevin Le Gendre in his review said the two musicians reached "the kind of advanced conversational intimacy only master players achieve." In 2015 Weston was artist-in-residence at The New School in New York, participating in a lecture series, performing, and mentoring students. Weston celebrated his 90th birthday in 2016 with a concert at Carnegie Hall, among other activities, and continues to tour and speak internationally. He performed at the Gnawa Festival in Morocco in April 2016, took part in the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC, on June 2, and was among the opening acts at the 50th Montreux Jazz Festival. In July 2016 he was a keynote speaker at the 32nd World Conference of the International Society for Music Education in Glasgow. An African Nubian Suite (2017) is a recording of a sold-out concert at the Institute of African American Affairs of New York University on April 8, 2012, Easter Sunday, with Cecil Bridgewater, Robert Trowers, Howard Johnson, T. K. Blue, Billy Harper, Alex Blake, Lewis Nash, Candido, Ayodele Maakheru, Lhoussine Bouhamidy, Saliou Souso, Martin Kwaku Obeng, Min Xiao-Fen, Tanpani Demda Cissoko, Neil Clarke and Ayanda Clarke, and the late poet Jayne Cortez. Describing it as an "epic work", the Black Grooves reviewer wrote that The African Nubian Suite "traces the history of the human race through music, with a narration by inspirational speaker Wayne B. Chandler, and introductions and stories by Weston in his role as griot.... Stressing the unity of humankind, Weston incorporates music that 'stretches across millennia'—from the Nubian region along the Nile Delta, to the holy city of Touba in Senegal, to China's Shang Dynasty, as well as African folk music and African American blues.... In these troubling times when our nation is divided by politics, race and religion, Weston uses The African Nubian Suite as a vehicle to remind us of our common heritage: 'We all come from the same place – we all come from Africa.' As eloquently stated by Robin D.G. Kelley in the liner notes: 'There are no superior or inferior races, no hierarchies of culture, no barbarians at the gate. Instead, Africa—its music, land, people, spirituality—tie us all together as a planet.'" Randy Weston died at his home in Brooklyn on the morning of September 1, 2018. Autobiography In October 2010, Duke University Press published African Rhythms: The Autobiography of Randy Weston, "composed by Randy Weston, arranged by Willard Jenkins". It was hailed as "an important addition to the jazz historiography and a long anticipated read for fans of this giant of African American music, aka jazz." Reviewer Larry Reni Thomas wrote: "Randy Weston’s long-anticipated, much-talked-about, consciousness-raising, African-centered autobiography, African Rhythms, is a serious breath of fresh air and is a much-needed antidote in this world of mediocre musicians, and men. He takes the reader on a wonderful, exciting journey from America to Africa and back with the ease of a person who loved every minute of it. The book is hard to put down and is an engaging, pleasing literary work that is worthy of being required reading in any history or literature school course." Archives In 2015–16, Weston's archives were acquired by the Jazz Research Initiative in collaboration with the Hutchins Center, Loeb Music Library, the Harvard College Library, and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The Randy Weston Collection comprises hundreds of manuscripts, scores, videos, films, photographs, and more than 1,000 tape recordings, and among its highlights are correspondence with Langston Hughes and Alvin Ailey; photographs with Dizzy Gillespie, Pharoah Sanders, Muhammad Ali, and Cornel West; and records of his African Rhythms Club in Tangier, Morocco, from 1967 to 1972. Awards and honors 1997: Order of Arts and Letters, France 1999: Swing Journal Award, Japan 2000: Black Star Award, Arts Critics and Reviewers Association of Ghana 2001: NEA Jazz Master 2006: Honorary degree, Brooklyn College, City University of New York 2009: Giants of Jazz concert in his honor with Monty Alexander, Geri Allen, Cyrus Chestnut, Barry Harris, Mulgrew Miller and Billy Taylor. 2011: Guggenheim Fellowship award. 2011: Honored by King Mohammed VI of Morocco for "lifelong engagement with Morocco and deep commitment to bringing Morocco's Gnaoua music tradition to the attention of the Western world" 2011: Honored by Congressional Black Caucus Foundation at the Jazz Issue Forum and Concert during the 40th Annual Legislative Conference 2012: Honorary degree of Doctor of Music from Colby College 2013: Honorary degree, New England Conservatory of Music 2014: Doris Duke Artist Award 2014: JJA Jazz Award, Trio or Duo of the Year: Randy Weston - Billy Harper 2015: JJA Jazz Award, Lifetime Achievement in Jazz 2016: Malcolm X Black Unity award, National Association of Kawaida Organizations (NAKO) with the International African Arts Festival (IAAF) 2016: DownBeat Hall of Fame. 2016: United States Artists Fellowship Award 2017: National Jazz Museum in Harlem Legends Award ----------- Weston has traveled throughout Africa and lived in Morocco, and the musics of these nations have influenced his work significantly. He has performed with Moroccan gnawa musicians, touring with them in 2006. "When Randy Weston plays, a combination of strength and gentleness, virility and velvet, emerges from the keys in an ebb and flow of sound seemingly as natural as the waves of the sea." ~Langston Hughes No musician has been more devoted to exploring the connection between Afro-American classical music (jazz) and the ancestral spirits and rhythms of the African continent than Randy Weston. The Brooklyn-born pianist began his professional career nearly 55 years ago as part of the bebop revolution in New York, playing with Art Blakey, among others, in a manner that synthesized the harmonic and rhythmic innovations of Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell with those of his earlier influences: Count Basie, Art Tatum, Nat King Cole, and Duke Ellington, and developing a personal approach to the piano once poetically described by Langston Hughes as “a combination of strength and gentleness, virility and velvet [which] emerges from the keys in an ebb and flow of sound seemingly as natural as the waves of the sea.” Weston insists that, even though he is often credited with bringing the music of Africa to the fore in jazz, it was simply a natural evolution in the music’s continuum. “People like Eubie Blake and Duke Ellington, the great artists of the ‘20s, William Grant Stills, people like that did a lot of composition about Africa. They knew the connection; so it’s not something brand new, it was just something that got cut off. Without the influence of those before me, there wouldn’t have been any Randy Weston. If I didn’t spend those years hanging out with Thelonious and listening to Ellington, hearing Art Tatum, hearing the boogie woogie giants, all that rich, rich music, there wouldn’t be a Randy Weston. From our masters, our elders, our ancestors, we learn how to play this music and learn its possibilities, so without them there wouldn’t be me. I’m just simply standing on the shoulders of the great people who came before me.” Weston has been instrumental in bringing the music of his American ancestors back to Africa and merging it with the continent’s rhythms and traditions. “I don’t present it to them as jazz, I present it to them as this is African classical music in America. You may not recognize your music after it crossed the Atlantic, I say,” he laughs, “but we’re going to bring it back to you and let you hear what happened when we left and came into contact with other cultures, with other kinds of instruments and created this music. So that’s what I tell them. This is your music, you just may not recognize it, but it’s your music. I’ve been very fortunate to have been very successful in Africa. I perform in about 18 countries and the people have been really appreciative of what we do. I always have a kind of basic African rhythm underneath in my music so the people can identify with it.” That underlying rhythm is prominent in Weston’s working group, the African Rhythms Quintet, a distinctive unit in jazz that eschews the American trap drum kit, substituting the multi-percussion of hand drummer Neil Clarke in its place. The group’s unique rhythmic sound is further enhanced by the idiosyncratic style of Alex Blake’s often-strummed bass, the very personal vocalized sounds of New Orleans-born trombonist Benny Powell and the exotic voice of alto saxophonist/flutist Talib Kibwe and/or Texas tenor Billy Harper. “We are more of a family,” the patriarchal pianist proudly proclaims. “We’ve been together a number of years and there’s a lot of respect and love between us and a lot of respect for our ancestors and what came before us. We play music, but we try to understand a little bit more about African civilization, in music, in poetry, in architecture, in philosophy. Things we usually don’t get in school, so we’ll give each other books. They’re not only great musicians, they’re also very much interested in our culture, so we have a great time together.” Weston’s recent CD Spirit! The Power of Music (Sunnyside, 2003) unites the band with the Gnawa musicians of Marrakesh and Gnawa musicians of Tangier in a synthesis of African and American music, in the tradition of his earlier recordings Uhuru Africa, Bantu, Tanjah Blue Moses and African Cookbook. Weston’s close association with the Gnawa people goes back to the years he lived in Morocco and he has been deeply influenced by their culture. “Gnawa represents the strength and spirituality of African culture because of their history of being taken as slaves and soldiers, crossing the Sahara Desert and settling in Morocco. They’ve created a very powerful spiritual music, just like African Americans have in this country, because the Creator is extremely important in traditional societies. So with the Gnawan people I’ve experienced some incredible music. They have communication with nature, with the Creator. They play games in music, they do rituals in music, they eat fire in music, they tell history in music and they dance and tell jokes and do everything with music and it’s wonderful for us because we are experiencing a tradition that is thousands and thousands of years old.” The disc documents a year 2000 concert in which Weston is reunited with the group with whom he first recorded eight years before, on the Verve album The Splendid Master Gnawa Musicians of Morocco, at the Lafayette Presbyterian Church. The moving music is transcendentally spiritual and indicative of the leader’s power to obliterate artificial barriers erected by a categorization-craving industry and bring together not just musicians but the people who listen to them. “It was a very special evening,” says the pianist, whose six foot seven stature and dignified demeanor bring a regal ceremonial air to all of his performances, “because (though not heard on the CD) Babatunde Olatunji with his group opened up the concert and after that it was ourselves and then the Gnawan people. What was so wonderful was that we had these three religions, Christianity, Islam and Yoruba, in music and the church was just packed with people. It was so spiritual, all this wonderful music together. So it was quite, quite the evening. One I’ll never forget.” Randy Weston: African Rhythms : By Russ Musto, All About Jazz The long-running Randy Weston Ensemble consists of T.K. Blue (Talib Kibwe), saxophones; Benny Powell, trombone; Neil Clarke, African percussion and Alex Blake, bass. Octojazzarian : Randy Weston With a performance career spanning 60 years, Weston is one of the world's foremost pianists and composers, a true innovator and visionary.Encompassing the vast rhythmic heritage of Africa, his globally influenced music continues to inform and inspire. "Weston has the biggest sound of any jazz pianist since Ellington and Monk, as well as the richest, most inventive beat," states jazz critic Stanley Crouch, "but his art is more than projection and time; it's the result of a studious and inspired intelligence...an intelligence that is creating a fresh synthesis of African elements with jazz technique". Some of Weston’s best known compositions include "Hi-Fly," "Little Niles," "Berkshire Blues," "African Sunrise," "The Healers," "Blue Moses," and "African Cookbook." With over 40 CDs in his discography and a long list of accolades and awards, Weston continues to tour internationally. This past November he appeared in Salzburg, Austria; Szeged, Hungary; and Fès, Morocco. In March 2009 he performs in Paris, France. Performing Diaspora : Randy Weston 2009 Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.