Jazz Meets Africa: 36 Original Recordings (3-CD)

by Various Artists

2014 three CD collection. Over the decades, many musicians from the African-American ethnic group have turned to Africa for musical inspiration. For some, it was to prove only a partial or brief flirtation, while others embraced the tonal and rhythmic elements the continent's music had to offer on a more serious basis. We have collected the best of the latter here. The American musicians assembled on this compilation were certainly not the only ones to mine the inspirational qualities of African music in the '50s and '60s but these were the principal players who chose to add a little color and ethnicity to their repertoire.