Cheick Tidiane Seck

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Known as the elder statesman of Malian music, Cheick’s career began in Bamako in the early ’70’s with legendary bands such as Les Ambassadeurs and the Super Rail Band - groups which launched the careers of artists like Salif Keita and More Kante.

With his new release ‘Timbuktu’, Cheick Tidiane Seck tributes the music of his friend and colleague Randy Weston, with a “Pan-African vision into the future over a sea of soulful piano and complex percussion”.
Cheikh envisaged the session as a kind of musical banquet, inviting guests including Manu Dibango and Abd Al Malik to the table to pay tribute to Randy Weston’s compositions, blending disparate musical traditions and experiences into a collective eulogy.
13 Oct 2019 English South Africa Arts · Performing Arts

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