'Listen To The Lion Of The Camaroon Roar'
African born Manu Dibango is a classically trained piano player who is better known as a sax player. His career kicked off in hip jazz bands in Paris during the 1950s. He's played with Herbie Hancock, Sly & Robbie and Fela Kuti and loads of other cool people.
Dibango had a massive hit in the early 1970s with the cracking 'Soul Makossa', which is often credited with being the first ever disco record, but Big Blow is the first of his songs that I think of when I hear his name.
It reminds me of the 1980s, summer, going to London for the first time and an absent friend. And it always makes me smile. So shine a bit of light on the winter gloom with BIG BLOW!
There is more forgotten music at Scott D Parkers funky blog!
1 comments:
He definitely covered the waterfront, didn't he? Or, at least, the pace-setter for '70s disco...'60s disco was more along the lines of Enoch Light and the Light Brigade...
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