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MP3 Radha Botofasina - Songs of the Urbane Ancestors Featuring Roy Campbell, Brian Auger & Chris Albert
10 MP3 Songs in this album (54:49) !
Related styles: JAZZ: Avant-Garde Jazz, JAZZ: Jazz Vocals
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Roy Campbell, Jr. is versatile trumpeter frequently linked to free jazz, though he has also performed rhythm and blues, bebop and funk at times during his career. Born in Los Angeles, California in 1952, Campbell was raised in New York. As a young fan, Roy met Lee Morgan at the Bronxwood Inn in the late ''60''s, and in 1971 Roy began participating in Jazzmobile workshops, working with jazz masters Kenny Dorham, Howard McGhee, and Lee Morgan, as well as with Howard McGhee and Joe Newman in Jazz Interactions workshops. Later, as a trumpet major at Manhattan Community College, his professors were Leonard Goines and Dick Vance, and Roy studied music theory, arranging, and composition with Yusef Lateef, graduating in 1975 with an Associate''s Degree in music.
By 1972, Roy was leading his own band, Spectrum; he had just turned 20. He was also in great demand as a side man and studio musician. During the time from 1973 to 1977, Roy co-led with Radha Botofasina a band called the Spirits of Rhythm, which included, at various times: Omar Hakim, Rodney Jones, Doug Harris, J.T. Lewis, Zane Massey, Cecil McBee, Jr., Andy McCloud, Marcus Miller, Charles Neville (of the Neville Brothers), Ricardo Strobert, Rudy Walker, Kenny Washington,Khalid Garner and Bobby Watson. They were an innovative concert afro jazz band and performed in venues throughout the New York metropolitan area.
On through the 1980s to the present he has performed primarily within the context of free jazz. In the early 1990s he moved to Holland and performed regularly with Klaas Hekman and Don Cherry. In addition to leading his own groups, he has performed with Yo La Tengo, William Parker, Peter Brotzmann, Matthew Shipp, and other improvisors. Upon returning to the United States he began leading his group Other Dimensions In Music and also formed the Pyramid Trio—a trio formed with William Parker that is unique for not employing the traditional use of a piano. He performs regularly as part of the Festival of New Trumpet Music, which is held annually in New York City.
Radha began her vocal studies while a student at Goddard College in Vermont with teacher Joyce Vos-Kadwell. She continued under the tutelage of Martin Lawrence in New York City, with whom she studied for five years. At this time, she also studied jazz piano with the noted player and composer Mary Lou Williams. She holds a BA from Goddard College in vocal performance with a concentration on the African American Folksong Spirituals.
A native of the New York metropolitan area, Radha made her mark early in her career in music as the co-leader of a jazz group, the Spirits of Rhythm.
During a trip to London, Radha''s interest in world music began. She was encouraged to develop her talents in this direction by the West African band Osibisa and former Fleetwood Mac founding member Peter Green. Over the years, her love of the indigenous music of many cultures has grown through her extensive travel to Eastern Europe, India, South America, Africa, the Philippines, Cuba and the Caribbean. As an ardent seeker of Truth, Radha has combined world music and devotion, singing in English, Sanskrit and—reflective of her Cuban heritage in Spanish. During her two decade long association with Alice Coltrane, her spiritual and musical mentor, Radha has learned how to sing beyond what her "mind" allows and to go vocally where her "heart" takes her.
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