Sugar on the Ground

Michel Benita · 2010 · Plage d'ouverture d'Ethics, longue pièce de sept minutes

Context

Opening track of Ethics (Zig Zag Territoires, 2010), Michel Benita's quintet with koto, electric guitar and trumpet. The JMA page places the album in French nu jazz, between North African influences, Japanese folk and Nordic guitar.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to French jazz, Acid jazz, jazz-rap, nu jazz. Among the origins and influences of French jazz: Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's), Traditional revival, Hot Club de France, Gypsy jazz, Jazz in France (interwar years), Jazz of the Maghreb and the Near East.

By the same artist

• Haikool (2010)
• Green Power (2010)
• Blue Jay Way (2010)

Sources

• jazzmusicarchives.com

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