Nice video from last summer

Nice video from the Edinburgh Jazz Festival Last year. 

See longer full length video here.

Tom Bancroft presented one of our EXPO projects last year - here what he has to say about it...To see the full video, please visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPNpPPmGeEE&feature=youtu.be

Posted by Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival on Monday, 3 April 2017

Tom & Daouda Jam 1

Tom Bancroft & Daouda (Labouzo) from Mali jam on djembe and bodhran in Kokrobite, Ghana.

I hung out a lot with Daouda on my second trip to Ghana and learnt a lot from him and he was also a very open musician and interested in doing things like this.

When I went back to Ghana Daouda had gone back to Mali and I had no way of contacting him.
So one of these days I am planning a trip to Mali to find Daouda...

Daouda - if you find this please get in touch!

Joe Morello

Just found out Joe died this week. He was a lovely man, a great drummer and a wonderful teacher and I count myself very lucky to have been able to study with him. I was much younger then but I still had bad hair. (One day soon I will try and write

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