Randy Weston

piano · 1926–2018 · Brooklyn (New York)

A pianist and composer from Brooklyn, he settled in Morocco in the late 1960s, drawn by Gnawa music, and ran a club in Tangier. His album The Spirits of Our Ancestors (Verve) extends this link with North Africa.

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Styles

• Spiritual jazz
• Jazz of the Maghreb and the Near East

Landmark tracks

• African Village Bedford-Stuyvesant (1992)
• The Healers (1992)
• La Elaha-Ella Allah/Morad Allah (1992)
• African Sunrise (1992)

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