Listen to La Cricca di Umberto and enjoy...

(Umberto Pagnini's Band)

I met Umberto in the '70.
He was Chute Libre drummer,
I was a young photographer.




Having beaten his way through the Dolphin Orchestra and big bands
like Claude Bolling's, Martial Solal's, Michel Legrand's or funky
Captain Mercier's, La Cricca di Umberto is his own current group.

Sax Tenor, Laurent Meyer
Fender Rhodes, Alfio Origlio
Bass, Marc Bertaux
Guit, Jimmi Drouillard
Drums, Umberto Pagnini.



Brasiliana
from last Umberto's CD Donne Latine
smells good Brazil...

Funky Saturday at L'Antirouille !

The Funky Saturday concept was launched
by DJ Pharoah in Nantes, France, in 1998.

Gathering the best funk DJ he could find in France to shake

the dancefloor has always been the main target since the
beginning.

After two evening parties at Les Coulisses Club in Montmartre,
Funky Saturday moves to Paris Oberkampf area
at...


L'Antirouille - 5, rue Moret - Paris XI
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on Saturday, December 13th
as well as each 2nd Saturday of the month,
under the leadership of DJ Moar,
TradVibe label.

In a Variations mood...

Glenn Gould in 1964...


(by p0lyph0ny)

Mama Africa is gone

Her song "Pata Pata" (lyrics) was a hit and still sounds warmly in our heads...











Miriam Makeba, musician and activist anti-apartheid, striked out yesterday night
by a heart attack after a concert near Naples supporting Roberto Saviano*.


(96aburns1ramnat)

More about Mama Africa.

* Roberto Saviano, the Italian author of Gomorra, now threatened with death by the camorra
for denouncing their economic empire based on racket, drug traffic and murder.
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You're Under Arrest Gainsbourg...

"French President François Mitterrand said of him, "He was our Baudelaire, our
Apollinaire... He elevated the song to the level of art.
His home at the well-known address 5bis rue de Verneuil is still covered in graffiti
and poems".
(Wikipedia).


(avi989)
Serge Gainsbourg - You're under arrest
(Live Zenith 1989)

One more version...
(val6210)

and a third one showing stock shots from his public life and featuring
Catherine Deneuve, Catherine Rangier (the Rita Mitsouko), his
daughter Charlotte, Charlotte Rampling, Jane Birkin, Vanessa Paradis...

(damienmailis)

"Since his death (a heart attack on March 1991), Gainsbourg's music has reached
legendary stature in France. His lyrical brilliance in French has left an extraordinary
legacy. His music, always progressive, covered many styles : jazz, ballads, mambo,
lounge, reggae, pop (including adult contemporary pop, kitsch pop, yé-yé pop,
'80s pop, pop-art pop, prog pop, space-age pop, psychedelic pop, and erotic pop),
disco, calypso, Africana, bossa nova, and rock and roll.
He has gained a following in the English-speaking world with many non-mainstream
artists finding his arrangements highly influential".
(Wikipedia).
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Bruni's 3rd CD on line...

Carla sings on line from July 9th until July 21st... listen.




















... and read the news !

FETE de la MUSIQUE !

Launched in 1982 by the French Ministry for culture, the Fête de la Musique is held in more
than one hundred countries in Europe and over the world.

(click on image to see other international posters)

The MUSIC DAY in PARIS, LONDON, ROME, NY, BERLIN, BARCELONA,
KATMANDOU, QUEBEC...

G@tto's Fief Programme
Les Echos de la Fête > LIVE IN PARIS
with pics, videos and music of course !

What happens at : La Villette ? What about La Bellevilloise
and La Maroquinerie ? and around the Nouveau Casino in Oberkampf ?

Tonight around the best Paris clubs, check LastFM !

La Fête de la Musique was launched in 1982... (more)
Read about the SPIRIT of "Fête de la Musique"...

Moar at Le Baxo tonight

How to go to Le Baxo - at 21, rue Juliette Dodu
(Paris 10th)

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Hot Eve at La Bellevilloise!

Tonight, June 15th, was the end of 'Paris Onze Bouge' Festival...
[Paris 11 or Paris onze, gives 'on se bouge', for let's move, let's swing... In short,
let's say Swinging Eleven !


FireTongue featured at La Bellevilloise tonight with 9 other
very good musicians and... the whole concert was like a hellish
ride on a motor unit, with the brass section embroidering their
phrases around the leading beat which rumbled through your
stomach from the beginning until the end !

Unfortunately, no one seems to have published a video of the performance, nor did I
because of memory card problems... but the atmosphere is the same in the following
videos. Enjoy it.



More on Charles Delangue: AfroBeat/Swing and Spiritual Beats, and for a good info
page, go to African Path.
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in a whirl outside !
... just before the concert.


and...

'La Bellevilloise' in a picture dated 1910... and NOW
[click to see the diffrent parts].
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Trad Vibe Flavaz at Café des Sports

DJ Suspect & DJ Moar

hip-hop, soul, jazz & funk from 9 pm to 2 am

Café des Sports
94, rue de Ménilmontant/19e
M° Ménilmontant ou Gambetta

dance, Russian Violetta... dance !
(View more pics on YellowCat'sClub)

Just listen... they are good !

Moar & Friends Live @ Fuzz'Yon
(TradVibe)

Moar mixe au Gast, ce soir.

from 11 pm until 4 am

Suffering and Smiling... the Movie

Dan Ollman, Nigeria/US 2006, video doc 65mn
A Bluemark Production

Human Rights Watch

Focusing on the legendary African singer and activist Fela
Anikulapo Kuti and his son Femi, Suffering and Smiling
depicts the impact of their politically charged music. Following Nigeria’s independence
in 1960, Fela used his songs to speak out against the country’s corrupt leaders.
Since independence the military and political elite have enriched themselves by allowing
Nigeria’s oil and natural resources to be stripped by multinational corporations with little
benefit to ordinary Nigerians. Fela gave voice to Nigeria’s disenfranchised underclass
and sang of a free and united Africa. Upon his death in 1997, Femi has continued his
father’s legacy. Equally passionate and charismatic, he sings about the dire situation
in his country, asks why the world’s most resource – rich continent has the poorest
people, and struggles to maintain a vision of better days ahead for the common people
of Nigeria.

(moffice61)
"Music is The Weapon of the Future" (Fela)

Tony Allen à La BelleVilloise!

19, rue Boyer /20e - Info@labellevilloise.com - Tél 01 46 36 07 07

Born in Nigeria in 1940 of mixed Nigerian and Ghanaian parentage, Tony Allen is perhaps the most
highly-regarded African drum set player to emerge since World War II. Drimmers and other musicians
of all backgrounds marvel at his uniquely polyrhythmic style. Allen belongs on one hand to a tradition
of African drum set playing associated with the Gahanian drummer Kofi Ghanaba (Guy Warren) and
historically rooted ib British military drumming, European ballroom dance music, bigband jazz drumming
and indigenous percussion traditions. However, he is also an African exponent of the African-American
tradition of modern jazz drumming typified by musicians such as Art Blakey, Elvin Jones and Max Roach.
(Michael E. Veal)

Tony Allen / DoctorL - Never satisfied
(by Edouard Salier)

Did you say... Moar at La Loc ?

Yes, I did say Moar's back at La Locandiera on Sunday 16th...
with Fono and Daveed.




















- Did you ask who's that guy ?
- You just read Groove's Interview...

or ask Moar... or YouVox Urban... or NovaPlanet.
(Pics on MySpace)

Things you can do with Post-Its...

... but see and read more at WebUrbanists, with an extensive and rich commentary,
as usual !


(Student film sent by Pat Terlizzi)

As a matter of fact, the music is from Guem's Le Serpent
(The Snake). I knew him in the 70th as the Zaka Percussion's
leader, at the American Center, and I still have pics of them
in my records.



(by Anxo)
This is the latter Guem, but I remember the former Guem acting exactly
the same... in 1978.
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Last Night at...

... the H A B A N A - J A Z Z !

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dj suspect & dj moar

M O A R - M I X

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by G@tto

(MySpace/YellowCatsClub)

*** Search no more > the Habana club has become "Le 9", but it still is a jazz club.
[Have a look at their MySpace page].

Do you know the Habana Jazz club?

< Soirée Hip-Hop '90 >

(Moar RMX)
Habana Jazz Club - 9, rue Moret - Paris 11th
M° Parmentier, St. Maur, Ménilmontant
Vélib 11032, 11030, 20039

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*** Search no more > the Habana club has become "Le 9", but it still is a jazz club.
have a look at their MySpace page.

"Coup de Cœur" at 4 am...

... because a friend's friend invited an Inuit family to spend 1 month in Paris.
The two daughters will probably sing traditional throat songs, katadjak, in my fief,
maybe at "La Locandiera" (145, rue Oberkampf, Paris XI) - If it snows...
which is possible this winter.


(Johnxxx20000)


(Isuma Prod)

Katadjak, or throat-singing, is a form of vocal-verbal art common to many (but not all)
Inuit (Eskimo) cultures.
Inuit throat-singing is done in the following way (click...).
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Latter Moar at "La Locandiera" in My Fief

Friends first...

A beat of Moar to listen at
and a bite of Loc to eat with !
Yo !

G@ttoGiallo recommends a special MIX :

One drop of "Funky Tequila", 2 slices of "American Cowboy"...
and...
some Parma's funky prosciutto with assorted cold vegetables.

While waiting for the End of the Year...