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From Brazil with love →

@ Ground Zero

 

Have you, dear friend, ever noticed how different places scattered across the face of the globe seem almost to exist in different universes? As if they were permeated throughout with something akin to 19th century luminiferous aether, unique, determined by that place's history? It's like a trick of the mind's light (I suppose), but standing on beach or escarpment in Salvador and looking out across the Baía de Todos os Santos to the great Recôncavo, and mindful of what happened there, one must be led to the inevitable conclusion that one is in a place unique to history, and to the present*.

 

 

"Chegou a hora dessa gente bronzeada mostrar seu valor / The time has come for these bronzed people to show their value..."Música: Assis Valente of Santo Amaro, Bahia. Vídeo: Betão Aguiar.

 

*More enslaved human beings entered the Bay of All Saints and the Recôncavo than any other final port-of-call throughout all of mankind's history.

 

These people and their descendants created some of the most uplifting music ever made, the foundation of Brazil's national art. We wanted their music to be accessible to the world (it's not even accessible here in Brazil) so we created a platform by which everybody's creativity is mutually accessible, including theirs.

 

El Aleph

 

The network was built in an obscure record shop (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar found it) in a shimmering Brazilian port city...

 

...inspired in (the kabbalah-inspired fiction of) Borges' (short story) El Aleph, that in the pillar in Cairo's Mosque of Amr, where the universe in its entirety throughout all time is perceivable as an infinite hum from deep within the stone.

 

It "works" by virtue of the "small-world" phenomenon...the same responsible for the fact that most of us 7 billion or so beings are within 6 or fewer degrees of each other.

 

It was described (to some degree) and can be accessed via this article in British journal The Guardian (which named our radio of matrixed artists as one of ten best in the world):

 

www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/apr/17/10-best-music-radio-station-around-world

 

With David Dye for U.S. National Public Radio: www.npr.org/2013/07/16/202634814/roots-of-samba-exploring-historic-pelourinho-in-salvador-brazil

 

All is more connected than we know.

 

Per the "spirit" above, our logo is a cortador de cana, a cane-cutter. It was designed by Walter Mariano, professor of design at the Federal University of Bahia to reflect the origins of the music the shop specialized in. The Brazilian "aleph" doesn't hum... it dances and sings.

 

If You Can't Stand the Heat

 

Image above is from the base of the cross in front of the church of São Francisco do Paraguaçu in the Bahian Recôncavo

 

Sprawled across broad equatorial latitudes, stoked and steamed and sensual in the widest sense of the word, limned in cadenced song, Brazil is a conundrum wrapped in a smile inside an irony...

 

It is not a European nation. It is not a North American nation. It is not an East Asian nation. It straddles — jungle and desert and dense urban centers — both the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn. Brazil absorbed over ten times the number of enslaved Africans taken to the United States of America, and is a repository of African deities (and their music) now largely forgotten in their lands of origin. It was a refuge (of sorts) for Sephardim fleeing an Inquisition which followed them across the Atlantic (that unofficial symbol of Brazil's national music — the pandeiro — was almost certainly brought to Brazil by these people). Across the parched savannas of the interior of Brazil's culturally fecund nordeste/northeast, where wizard Hermeto Pascoal was born in Lagoa da Canoa (Lagoon of the Canoe) and raised in Olho d'Águia (Eye of the Eagle), much of Brazil's aboriginal population was absorbed into a caboclo/quilombola culture punctuated by the Star of David. Three cultures — from three continents — running for their lives, their confluence forming an unprecedented fourth. Pandeirista on the roof. Nowhere else but here.

 

Oligarchy, plutocracy, dictatorships and massive corruption — elements of these are still strongly entrenched — have defined, delineated, and limited Brazil.

 

But strictured & bound as it has been and is, Brazil has buzz...not the shallow buzz of a fashionable moment...but the deep buzz of a population which in spite of — or perhaps because of — the tough slog through life they've been allotted by humanity's dregs-in-fine-linen, have chosen not to simply pull themselves along but to lift their voices in song and their bodies in dance...to eat well and converse well and much and to wring the joy out of the day-to-day happenings and small pleasures of life which are so often set aside or ignored in the European, North American, and East Asian nations.

 

For this Brazil has a genius perhaps unparalleled in all other countries and societies, a genius which thrives alongside peeling paint and holes in the streets and roads, under bad organization by the powers-that-be, both civil and governmental, under a constant rain of societal indignities...

 

Which is all to say that if you don't know Brazil and you're expecting any semblance of order, progress and light, you will certainly find the light! And the buzz of a people who for generations have responded to privation at many different levels by somehow rising above it all.

 

"Onde tem miséria, tem música!"* - Raymundo Sodré

 

And it's not just music. And it's not just Brazil.

 

Welcome to the kitchen!

 

* "Where there is misery, there is music!" Remarked during a conversation arcing from Bahia to Haiti and Cuba to New Orleans and the south side of Chicago and Harlem to the villages of Ireland and the gypsy camps and shtetls of Eastern Europe...

 

Harlem to Bahia to the Planet



Why a "Matrix"?

 

I was explaining the ideas behind this nascent network to (João) Teoria (trumpet player above) over cervejas at Xique Xique (a bar named for a town in Bahia) in the Salvador neighborhood of Barris...

 

Like this (but in Portuguese): "It's kind of like Facebook if it didn't spy on you, but reversed... more about who you don't know than who you do know. And who doesn't know you but would be glad if they did. It's kind of like old Myspace Music but instead of having "friends" it has a list on your page of people you recommend. Not just musicians but writers, painters, filmmakers, dancers, chefs... anybody in the creative economy. It has a list of people who recommend you, or through whom you are recommended. It deals with arts which aren't recommendable by algorithm but need human intelligence behind recommendations. And the people who are recommended can recommend, creating a network of recommendations wherein by the small world phenomenon most people in the creative economy are within several steps of everybody else in the creative economy, no matter where they are in the world..."

 

And João said (in Portuguese): "A matrix where you can move from one artist to another..."

 

A matrix! That was it! The ORIGINAL meaning of matrix is "source", from "mater", Latin for "mother". So the term would help congeal the concept in the minds of people the network was being introduced to, while giving us a motto: "We're a real mother for ya!" (you know, Johnny "Guitar" Watson?)

 

The original idea was that musicians would recommend musicians, the network thus formed being "small world" (commonly called "six degrees of separation"). In the real world, the number of degrees of separation in such a network can vary, but while a given network might have billions of nodes (people, for example), the average number of steps between any two nodes will usually be minuscule.

 

Thus somebody unaware of the magnificent music of Bahia, Brazil will be able to conceivably move from almost any musician in this matrix to Bahia in just a few steps...

 

By the same logic that might move one from Bahia or anywhere else to any musician anywhere.

 

And there's no reason to limit this system to musicians. To the contrary, while there are algorithms written to recommend music (which, although they are limited, can be useful), there are no algorithms capable of recommending journalism, novels & short stories, painting, dance, film, chefery...

 

...a vast chasm that this network — or as Teoria put it, "matrix" — is capable of filling.

 

  • Nguyên Lê
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This is the Universe of

  • Name: Nguyên Lê
  • City/Place: Paris
  • Country: France

Life & Work

  • Bio: Born in Paris from vietnamese parents, Nguyên Lê began to play drums at the age of 15, then took up guitar & electric bass. After graduating in Visual Arts, he majored in Philosophy, writing a thesis on Exoticism. Then he devoted to music, creating "ULTRAMARINE"(1983), a multi-ethnic band whose CD "DÉ" has been considered "1989's best World Music album" Philippe Conrath, Libération.

    A self-taught musician, Nguyên Lê started to play out of any stylistic borders: Rock & Funk (Jim Cuomo, Madagascar 84), Jazz standards & avant-garde Jazz (Marc Ducret, Yves Robert), Pop Singers (Ray Charles), Contemporary Music (André Almuro, Tona Scherchen, Marius Constant, Mauricio Kagel), Ethnic Music: African & Caribbean with ULTRAMARINE (85), Algerian with Safy Boutella & Cheb Mami, Indian with Kakoli, Turkish with Kudsi Erguner, Vietnamese with the learning of "Dan Bau" (monocorde) in 1979.

    In sept. 87 he was chosen by director Antoine Hervé to play with the O. N. J. (French National Jazz Orchestra). Within this big band, he played with such musicians as Johnny Griffin, Louis Sclavis, Didier Lockwood, Carla Bley, Steve Swallow, Randy Brecker, Toots Thielemans, Courtney Pine, Steve Lacy, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Gil Evans, Quincy Jones. Nguyên LE' s work also deals with programming synthetizers, effects & computers as well as writing orchestral pieces : "PROCESSOR" composed, arranged & recorded on CD "O.N.J. 87" & "LUNIK II" co-arranged with Dominique Borker & performed by the O.N.J. 1989.

    In sept. 89 he records ULTRAMARINE's 2nd album "DÉ" &, in may 90, his first album as a leader : "MIRACLES" recorded in the U.S.A. with Art LANDE, Marc JOHNSON & Peter ERSKINE. At the same time he works with such musicians as Michel Portal, Miroslav Vitous, Trilok Gurtu, J. F. Jenny Clarke, Aldo Romano, Daniel Humair, Dewey Redman, Andy Emler, Jon Christensen, Nana Vasconcelos, Glenn Ferris, Christof Lauer, Paolo Fresu, Kenny Wheeler, John Taylor...

    In may 92, after a month tour with Paul McCANDLESS on winds, Art Lande (p), Dean Johnson (b) & Joël Allouche (d), he records his 2nd album ZANZIBAR, which gets the « ffff » award by Télérama. In Jan. 93 he records "INIT", a trio with André Ceccarelli, François Moutin & guest Bob Berg, while setting up a new band on the music of Jimi Hendrix, w/ Corin Curschellas (voc), Steve Argüelles (d), Richard Bona (b). Since Jan. 93 he's been a frequent guest soloist of Köln's WDR Big band, especially with composer/director Vince MENDOZA. Nguyên Lê plays on three of his projects: "Jazzpaña", "Sketches" w/ Dave LIEBMAN, Charlie MARIANO, Peter Erskine, & "Downtown", w/ Russell Ferrante. In April 94 he’s the guest soloist of "The New Yorker", a suite by Bob BROOKMEYER, with Dieter Ilg (b) & Danny Gottlieb (d). With these two musicians he set his first trio, & recorded "MILLION WAVES" in dec. 94. About this CD, Télérama writes : "This trio brings him to some musical spaces which he had not even imagined, & which are pure poetry".

    In the meantime, he's playing in trio with Michel Benita(b) & Peter Erskine, recording on Michel Portal's new album with Ralph TOWNER (g), & working with Ornette COLEMAN on one of his contemporary music pieces, "Freedom Statue". In June 95 he's invited by WDR BigBand in "Azure Moon", with the YELLOWJACKETS & Vince Mendoza. In July 95, in Stuttgart Festival, he's one of the guest guitar players to celebrate the "Universe of Jimi Hendrix", besides Trilok Gurtu, Terry BOZZIO, Cassandra WILSON, Jack BRUCE, Vernon REID, David TORN, Victor BAILEY, Pharoah SANDERS... Recently he has been playing with John McLaughlin, Michel Petrucianni, Markus Stockhausen, Enrico Rava, Ray Anderson, Kenny Wheeler, John Taylor, Dave Douglas, Wolfgang Pushnig, Uri Caine, Tigran Hamasyan, Herbie Hancock, John Scofield, Joe Lovano...

    In April 96, Nguyên Lê creates "Tales from Viêt-Nam", a project on Vietnamese music, with a 8-piece band blending jazz & traditional musicians. With stage director P. J. San Bartolomé, he starts " Of the Moon & the Wind ", a complete show where traditional & contemporary Vietnamese dancers are integrated to the "Tales from Viêt-Nam" orchestra. The CD has received a great welcoming from international critics : Diapason d'Or, Choc du Monde de la Musique, Choc of Year 1996 Jazzman, 2nd best CD 96 for JAZZTHING (Germany), Best CD 96 on radio TRS 2 (CH), "a minor masterpiece" JAZZTIMES (USA).

    On 4/97 Nguyên Lê releases his 5th CD, " 3 Trios", with Marc Johnson/ Peter Erskine, Dieter Ilg/ Danny Gottlieb & Renaud Garçia Fons/ Mino Cinelu. JAZZIZ Magazine USA says : « At times, jazz guitar can sound staid - but not in the case of N. Lê. He’s forever breaking boundaries for our benefit ». He has recorded 2 Cds with Paolo Fresu’s quartet : « Angel » (2/98) & « Metamorfosi » (4/99). On 5/98, 6th N. Lê record : « Maghreb & Friends », an exploration of Maghreb musical traditions & a deep collaboration with Algerian musicians. « Far from a false world music, N. Lê simply touches, with force & intensity, to universality » F. Medioni. N. Lê produced the 1rst CD of Huong Thanh, « Moon & Wind », entirely done in his home studio. He also has been nominated for the « Victoires de la Musique 1999 » award. His last CD, « BAKIDA », based on his regular trio with Renaud Garçia Fons (b) & Tino di Geraldo (perc, dr) plus guests from all over the world like Kudsi Erguner, Chris Potter, Carlos Benavent... This CD has been voted "best jazz album of the year" by "CD Compact" (Spain). ELB, a new trio CD has just been recorded in Rainbow studios, Oslo, with Peter Erskine & Michel Benita. He's touring with Terri Lyne Carrington's band, with Geri Allen, Matt Garrison & Gary Thomas & plays with Maria Schneider.

    Sept 2002 : 2nd CD of Huong Thanh « Dragonfly ». In june 2002 he's invited by the Metropole Orchestra (NL) to play his music arranged by Vince Mendoza. « Purple », an album celebrating Jimi Hendrix is released in sept 2002. In sept 2002 it's n° 1 on the charts of UK magazine "Jazzwise". Today it's N. Lê's most successful album, with 20 500 CD sales & non stop touring all over the world. "Mangustao", Huong Thanh's 3rd album, released in jan. 2004, is awarded as "Choc de la Musique" by french magazine "Le Monde de la Musique". In March 2005 release of "Walking on the Tiger's Tail", new album with his great friends Art Lande, Paul McCandless & Jamey Haddad “A universe where the alliance between acoustic and electric, improvisation and writing, inner delicacy and virtuosic expressivity reach the ideal balance.”(Le Monde).

    Several projects were built in 2006 : the score writing of "Le Sheitan", a movie by Kim Chapiron with Vincent Cassel, & « Homescape », a very electronic, improvised & mystical recording in duo with Paolo Fresu & Dhafer Youssef, all done at home, #1 in « Jazzwise » april 2006 charts; the score for the Vietnamese movie "Saigon Eclipse" by Othello Khanh; the recording of "Mozart" last Uri Caine's album; a 13-gig tour in USA with "Tiger's Tail" quartet, thanks to a CMA/FACE grant; two "classical" compositions commissioned by the Ahn Trio & the Laguna Beach Fest in LA. Nguyên Lê was unanimously awarded as the guitar "Django d'Or" 2006.

    In 2007, after tours in US & China, he releases "Fragile Beauty", the 4th album with Huong Thanh «Simply an album that captures the heart from the first note and leaves it hungering for more as the last one fades» (All That Jazz). In 2008 he records "The Othello Syndrome" for Uri Caine, "Blauklang" for Vince Mendoza's & also « Dream Flight » a new ELB album, with guest Stéphane Guillaume on sax. A new album comes out in oct 2009: SAIYUKI, an asian trio with Mieko Miyazaki (koto) & Prabhu Edouard (tablas) & special guest Hariprasad Chaurasia (flute). He’s the mixing engineer & co-producer of Dhafer’s Youssef «Abu Nawas Rhapsody», Céline Bonacina’s «Way of Life» & Mario Canonge «Mitan». «Signature Edition», a double-CD album showing 20 years of music creation has been released by ACT in march 2010. AllAboutJazz will say: «the ample evidence of an artist whose voice has been his own from the very beginning». He’s guest soloist on Erkki Sven Tüür’s 5th symphony with Bremen Philarmonic. For the 2nd time Nguyên Lê is the recipient of the CMA/FACE grant which helps the «Saiyuki inviting Rudresh Mahanthappa» project to tour in US in the fall 2010. In 2011 he is awarded by the rank of «Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts & des Lettres» by French Cultural minister & receives the Django Reinhardt prize by French Academie du Jazz. «Ting Ning», excerpt from «Tales from Viet-Nam» (1996) is selected between only 4 european artists in the 6-CD compendium «Jazz: the Simthsonian Anthology».

    The album «Songs of Freedom», released in april 2011, is an exotic & eccentric reading of Pop hits from the 70’s with Illya Amar, Linley Marthe, St. Galland & guests Youn Sun Nah, David Linx, Dhafer Youssef, a.o. It has received a fantastic welcoming from international press («Record of the Year» & cover story in Jazzmagazine/Jazzman) & was on top jazz charts of Itunes & Amazon. N. Lê is part of «Nights on Earth», Vince Mendoza’s last album. He takes part of the 1rst International Jazz Day celebration at Unesco with Herbie Hancock. In 2013 he produces the album «Doc Dao» for & with Hanoian singer Tung Duong, with which he receives 3 awards in Vietnam : «Best Song of the Year», «Man of the year» & «Best Show of the Year». In 2014 he releases «Celebrating the Dark Side of the Moon», a very personal version of the famous Pink Floyd’s album, with the NDR Bigband, Youn Sun Nah, Gary Husband & Michael Gibbs’ orchestrations. He is nominated as best international guitarist for the ECHO JAZZ 2015 (German Music Award) besides Bill Frisell & Pat Metheny.

Contact Information

  • Management/Booking: Professional Contacts

    Record Company, with US & D bio, touring schedule, photos,
    discography, musical excerpts & online CD sales :
    Siegfried Loch, ACT Publishing
    Postfach 14 03 99
    D - 80453 München
    Fon 0049 (0) 89 72 94 92 0
    Fax 0049 (0) 89 72 94 92 11
    [email protected]
    www.actmusic.com

    Record Distributor France :
    Harmonia Mundi
    tel : 04 90 49 90 49
    Mas de Vert
    B.P. 20150
    13631 Arles cedex
    Tel. +33 (0)4 90 49 90 49
    [email protected]
    www.harmoniamundi.com

    German Booking :
    Uli Fild (exclusivity in German-speaking countries)
    tel + 49 2054 86 517
    fax + 49 2054 86 422
    Pestalozzistr. 28, 42579
    Heilingenhaus, Germany
    [email protected]
    www.fild.de

    France Booking :
    Franck Féret, Jazz Musiques Productions (exclusivity on France)
    tél: 00.33.(0)4.67.59.74.97
    fax: 00.33.(0)4.67.59.72.84
    520 rue de la Ducque 34730 Prades le Lez France
    [email protected]
    www.jmp.fr

Media | Markets

  • ▶ Buy My Music: (downloads/CDs/DVDs) http://www.download.actmusic.com/
  • ▶ Buy My Music 2: (downloads/CDs/DVDs) http://www.fusion3.com/
  • ▶ Website: http://www.nguyen-le.com
  • ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4QffH8k-ZlrwcIB6XHbjPw
  • ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UCGJyjsiskmS2TUY1qOzj6Gg
  • ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/7BVBhpBKbhAVYDAuMbFyKH
  • ▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/3CuKjRosW7fm1IWou9rOyR

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  • Quotes, Notes & Etc. Few musicians embody the word "fusion" more than Parisian-born guitarist Nguyên Lê. For the past 25 years he's been mining a combination of fusion by the more conventional definition—the infusion of rock energy into the jazz sphere—with fusion in a broader sense, the seamless integration of music from cultures around the world.
    - All About Jazz

    Nguyên Lê is a masterful, inventive player who has cultivated a wholly unique voice on the intsrument, he ranks right up there with Frisell, John Scofield, Mike Stern & Allan Holdsworth in the post Hendrix world of jazz guitar.
    - Jazztimes

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    PBN 114 | Nguyên Lê, Stomu Takeishi, Ted Poor - Thăng Long
    By Nguyên Lê
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  • 4:57
    Breathe - Nguyên Lê & OSI - Celebrating the Dark Side of the Moon, Lugano
    By Nguyên Lê
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    Cloud Chamber - Nguyên Lê Streams quartet
    By Nguyên Lê
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Imagine the world's creative economy at your fingertips. Imagine 10 doors side-by-side. Beyond each, 10 more, each opening to a "creative" somewhere around the planet. After passing through 8 such doorways you will have followed 1 pathway out of 100 million possible (2 sets of doorways yield 10 x 10 = 100 pathways). This is a simplified version of the metamathematics that makes it possible to reach everybody in the global creative economy in just a few steps It doesn't mean that everybody will be reached by everybody. It does mean that everybody can  be reached by everybody.


Appear below by recommending Nguyên Lê:

  • 1 Composer
  • 1 Film Scores
  • 1 Guitar
  • 1 Paris
  • 1 Record Producer
  • 1 Vietnam
  • Ron Carter Educator
  • Alyn Shipton Radio Presenter
  • Archie Shepp Paris, France
  • Ben Paris Bahia
  • Gabriel Grossi Samba
  • Mohini Dey Mumbai
  • Nettrice R. Gaskins Cultural Critic
  • Bob Reynolds Jazz
  • Deesha Philyaw Columnist
  • Geraldine Inoa Playwright
  • Calypso Rose Calypso
  • Mônica Salmaso MPB
  • Greg Ruby Jazz
  • Djuena Tikuna Amazonas
  • Logan Richardson Flute
  • Bright Red Dog Ropeadope
  • Alma Deutscher Composer
  • Walter Pinheiro MPB
  • Gerald Clayton Piano
  • Tierra Whack Singer-Songwriter
  • Jorge Pita Bahia
  • Rema Namakula Singer
  • Jason Marsalis New Orleans
  • Jerry Douglas Record Producer
  • Marcel Camargo Choro
  • Andrew Huang Guitar
  • Carlinhos 7 Cordas Brazil
  • Becca Stevens Brooklyn, NY
  • Stormzy London
  • Alita Moses Singer-Songwriter
  • Anissa Senoussi London
  • David Kirby Writer
  • Cassie Kinoshi Composer
  • Weedie Braimah Pan-African Culture
  • Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Composer
  • Lucinda Williams Country
  • Guinga Rio de Janeiro
  • Brooklyn Rider Contemporary Classical Music
  • Corey Henry Funk
  • Edgar Meyer Jazz
  • Eddie Palmieri Puerto Rico
  • Mayra Andrade Cape Verde
  • Esperanza Spalding Jazz
  • Christopher James Piano
  • Concha Buika Spain
  • Jam no MAM Jam Sessions
  • Marcel Camargo Cavaquinho
  • The Rheingans Sisters Folk & Traditional
  • Yuja Wang New York City
  • Léo Rodrigues Choro
  • Arismar do Espírito Santo Brazilian Jazz
  • Roberta Sá Singer
  • Daedelus Record Producer
  • Samba de Lata Samba de Roda
  • TaRon Lockett Drums
  • Ben Azar Composer
  • Mika Mutti DJ
  • Edgar Meyer Composer
  • Ned Sublette New Orleans
  • Samuca do Acordeon Milonga
  • Zé Luíz Nascimento Drums
  • Vanessa Moreno Guitar
  • Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh Television Presenter
  • Michael Janisch Soul
  • Raul Midón Guitar
  • Bernardo Aguiar Pandeiro Instruction
  • David Sánchez Saxophone
  • Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh Radio Presenter
  • Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh County Kerry
  • Arturo Sandoval Cuba
  • Andrew Gilbert Berkeley, California
  • Kaveh Rastegar Bass
  • Banning Eyre African Music
  • Pururu Mão no Couro Salvador
  • Jason Moran Jazz
  • Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh Piano
  • Etienne Charles Trumpet
  • Márcio Valverde Singer-Songwriter
  • Billy O'Shea Science Fiction
  • Simon Singh Mathematics
  • Menelaw Sete Pelourinho
  • Dave Weckl Los Angeles
  • Victor Gama Composer
  • John Boutté Jazz
  • Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh Celtic
  • Tshepiso Ledwaba Johannesburg
  • Jen Shyu Vocalist
  • Victor Gama Experimental Music
  • Jon Batiste Piano
  • Nancy Viégas Country
  • Las Cafeteras Son Jarocho
  • Stuart Duncan Guitar
  • VJ Gabiru DJ
  • Carlos Malta Brazil
  • Dani Deahl Public Speaker
  • Nahre Sol Piano
  • Nomcebo Zikode House Music
  • Leo Genovese Piano
  • Brandon Coleman Keyboards
  • Rodrigo Caçapa Percussion
  • Pat Metheny Guitar
  • Shamarr Allen New Orleans
  • Glória Bomfim Singer
  • Jaleel Shaw Manhattan School of Music Faculty
  • Toninho Nascimento Rio de Janeiro
  • Karsh Kale कर्ष काळे Indian Classical Music
  • Gregory Tardy Saxophone
  • Andrés Prado Latin Jazz
  • Charles Munka Painter
  • Abhijith P. S. Nair Indian Fusion
  • Restaurante Axego Afro-Bahian Cuisine
  • MicroTrio de Ivan Huol Brasil, Brazil
  • Oded Lev-Ari Composer
  • Kiko Loureiro Helsinki
  • Celso Fonseca Singer
  • Raynald Colom Jazz
  • Azadeh Moussavi Tehran
  • Ronaldo do Bandolim Composer
  • Edward P. Jones Washington, D.C.
  • Ambrose Akinmusire New York City
  • Sarah Hanahan Composer
  • Esperanza Spalding Composer
  • Yilian Cañizares Cuba
  • Di Freitas Ceará
  • Ricardo Bacelar Brasil, Brazil
  • Omer Avital Oud
  • The Weeknd Toronto
  • Adam Cruz Jazz
  • Seckou Keita Multi-Cultural
  • Musa Okwonga Podcaster
  • Ubiratan Marques Brasil, Brazil
  • Luciana Souza Singer
  • Astrig Akseralian Painter
  • Edil Pacheco Songwriter
  • Nicholas Daniel Trossingen Musikhochschule Staff
  • Marvin Dunn Educator
  • John McWhorter Linguist
  • Brandee Younger Classical Music
  • Luis Perdomo New York City
  • Arturo O'Farrill Bandleader
  • Danilo Caymmi Record Producer
  • McIntosh County Shouters Spirituals
  • Jack Talty County Clare
  • Los Muñequitos de Matanzas Rumba
  • Fabiana Cozza Singer
  • Louis Michot Record Label Owner
  • James Martin R&B
  • Sam Eastmond Multi-Cultural
  • Tedy Santana Salvador
  • Walter Smith III Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Negra Jhô Pelourinho
  • Terri Hinte Jazz Publicist
  • Eli Saslow Journalist
  • Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Composer
  • Seckou Keita Senegal
  • Kamasi Washington Saxophone
  • Chris Dingman Multi-Cultural
  • Papa Mali Louisiana
  • Edward P. Jones Novelist
  • David Braid London
  • Gonzalo Rubalcaba Havana
  • Ben Cox Cinematographer
  • Margareth Menezes Afropop
  • Steve Earle Actor
  • Ron McCurdy Writer
  • Tony Austin Recording Engineer
  • Bobby Vega Bass
  • Brian Blade Composer
  • Marcus Printup Arranger
  • Jeff Tweedy Americana
  • Pretinho da Serrinha Songwriter
  • Antonio Sánchez Drums
  • Rowney Scott Compositor, Composer
  • Olivia Trummer Germany
  • Gevorg Dabaghyan Armenia
  • Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh Fiddle
  • Ivo Perelman Brazil
  • Edivaldo Bolagi Candomblé
  • 小野リサ Lisa Ono Singer
  • Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah Mardi Gras Indian
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