Randy Weston: The Storyteller - review

(Motéma)Iconic jazz seniors bearing halos of spiritual gravitas sometimes go more for gravitas than music as the years pass – but not Randy Weston. Weston is the fine, Thelonious Monk-influenced jazz pianist who became captivated by the music and culture of north and west Africa in the 1960s and 70s. But this 2010 New York gig (with Weston an irrepressible 83) is a party, not an homage. The characteristic Africanised sounds of a Weston group are all here: the chord-chiming, drumlike, free-jaz...

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