El Cumbanchero; Billumba-Palo Congo; Choferito- Plena; Asabache; Simba; Rhapsodia del Maravilloso; Aggo Elegua; Tribilin Cantore. "Sabu" L. Martinez- congas, bongos ...
Another buzzy term in 1960 is “the cool war” — the effort to use jazz musicians as envoys for American power abroad. The tale plays counterpoint to events in Congo. Yet Grimonprez also ...
There are two key places in the film where jazz converges with the true story of the 1960-1 crisis. The CIA was hyperactively involved across the strategically important and uranium-rich Congo, to the ...