Museum of African Art - CHEICK TIDIANE SECK & QUINTET

Exclusive concert - Cheick Tidiane Seck sextet – 5th of June 2010, at 21h, Museum of African Art in Belgrade, featuring :
Cheick Tidiane Seck – keyboards, vocal
Guimba Kouyate – guitar, talking drum
Alioune Wade – bass guitar
Yoann Schmidt – drums
Fatoumata Diawara – vocal
Igor Vincetić – congas, djembe, callebass

Tickets - 690 din.

On sale from 24th of May at Bilet servis, Mamut and the Museum of African Art.

After party @ gafe ( Guitar Art Cafe ), Dvorana Kulturnog centra Beograda.

Cheick-Tidiane Seck, keyboardist, composer, and performer of popular and traditional Malian music, is one of the most prolific, experienced, and highly appreciated musicians from the Manding-speaking region of West Africa. He possesses a rich and undeniably interesting history, filled with a diverse range of musical encounters with such artists as Salif Keita, Mory Kante, Fela Kuti, Youssou N'Dour, Hank Jones, Carlos Santana, Joe Zawinul, and a host of others. As keyboardist, composer, bandleader, singer, arranger, modern and traditional musician, Seck presents a telling portrayal of the varied and complex nature of the musician in West Africa, one that often features the mixing of cultures and regions, contemporary and "traditional," and global and local.

Seck's childhood was spent learning the local traditions of his Manding cultural heritage, but like many West African musicians, he looked toward Western popular music for a new, complementary source of inspiration. During the early 1970s, Seck played with the hugely successful Rail Band du Buffet Hotel de la Gare in Bamako, Mali, with Mory Kante and Salif Keita. During the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, Seck continued to play with Keita, both in the famed Les Ambassadeurs, but also on various solo projects of Keita's, such as the hugely successful and influential album "Soro“. The 1980s and 1990s have witnessed continued success and activity for Seck, both in his extensive worldwide recording and touring, as well as his collaboration with jazz pianist Hank Jones on the respected album "Sarala" in 1995.

From January to March 2000, Seck has been invited by the University of California- Los Angeles to teach “African music meets Jazz”.

For thirty-five years, the Malian organist is part of all musical adventures, from jazz to African music, India, international groove or French pop and hip hop.

A veteran of the legendary Rail Band du Buffet Hotel de la Gare de Bamako, a founding member of Les Asselars, he became a mainstay of the fertile Ivorian scene of the late 1970s. He finally settled in Paris in 1985, in full explosion of African music, where he is fast becoming known as one of the most valiant of session and live musicians of his generation. For many years, music lovers enjoy, along with Hank Jones, Ornette Coleman, Living Color, Salif Keita, Amadou & Mariam, Dee Dee Bridgewater and Joe Zawinul, his personal touch, vibration nourished by black American music, always made the difference. Backbone of contemporary Malian music scene, he comes to produce and arrange new records expected, like Oumou Sangare, Kassé Mady Diabaté and Sory Bamba, which we cross on his new album.

Seck’s exquisite album „Sabaly“ (2008), recorded in Bamako, hosted numerous guest-artists and friends: Manu Dibango, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Guy Nsangue, Paco Sery, Oumou Sangare, Toumani Diabate, Amadou & Mariam, Bassekou Kouyate, Kasse Mady Diabate, Habib Koite, Kaniba Woule, Mangala Camara, Djelimady Tounkara, Baba Salah i Petit Adama...

Immaculate boubou, big smile and cellular phone on the ears, we inevitably end by cross Cheick Tidiane Seck in Bamako nights.

BINTA sound presents:

CHEICK TIDIANE SECK SEXTET

- African Music Meets Jazz -

5th of June, 21h, Museum of African Art