THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Fred Jackson (vintage bop); Olga Chung, Munir Bashir & Rabih Abou-Khalil (mid-eastern fusion); Columbian sound system culture from Wulomei; reed player Mikko Innnanen w. Organ trio; new music from guitarist/composer/improvisor Mary Halvorsen;Portugues fado from Maria José Silva; long form Sonny Fortune; James Brandon Lewis salutes Mahalia; Gulf vocalist Abu Bakr Salem; Kurdish ney trio (Trio Andalabi); vintage Peloponnesian Demotika from Anthe Alexandropoulou & her orchestra; Rosalia de Souza, Mart'nalia, Paula Lima (perf. Martinho da Vila) and Carmen Costa from Brazil; Bandha Maravilha (from Angola); Clément Janinet w. Adama Sidibe; West African musique authenticite from Orchestre Regional De Mopti; Malian Wagadu pop pop from Mamadou Mariko; legends from Lebanon: Wadih al Safi, Fairuz; twaarab from coastal Kenya perf. by Nyota Ndogo; vintage salsa from Orquesta Experimental; Cuban salsa from Wayne Gorbea, Elite Revé; and, as ever, lots of mumbling and so much, much more.

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