Juma Santos

Juma Santos, and Jumma Santos and Jim Riley ( * December 27 1947 in Massachusetts as James Reginald Riley, † September 10, 2007 in Chicago ) was a percussionist who worked intensively with African music and this in the jazz and fusion region earned.

Life and work

Santos grew up in Boston. Since 1967, he explored at traveled extensively in North and South America, the Caribbean, Europe and the Middle East numerous musical traditions with African-American rhythms. He worked as a studio musician, belonged to the circle around Babatunde Olatunji, was in 1967 as a conga player on the last concert of John Coltrane (The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording) involved and played ostensibly as Juma Sultan at the Woodstock Festival in the band of Jimi Hendrix. On the recommendation of Don Alias ​​, he was involved in the recording of Miles Davis ' Bitches Brew and belonged in the subsequent year, occasionally to his band. In 1971 he founded with Bob Moses, Harold Vick, Jack Gregg and Jack DeJohnette fusion band Compost. He then traveled through Africa, where he was 1973-1975 Artist in Residence at the JH Kwabena Nketia led by Masters in African Music Program at the University of Ghana. He appeared in 1976 in the Wildflowers sessions and led his own group as the Rosewater Foundation ( with David S. Ware ), African Jazz Messengers, The Pan African Drum Ensemble, The Juma Society and Sounds of the Urban Forest. In Cuba, he took from 1996 to 1998 at an ethno- musical research program of the Escuela Nacional de Arte in part. In 2003 he became a lecturer in the Music Department of the School of Performing Arts of the University of Ghana.

Santos also took up with musicians from the jazz avant-garde such as Larry Young, Noah Howard, Marion Brown, Dave Liebman or Hamiet Bluiett and was on recordings of Nina Simone, David Sanborn, Taj Mahal, Michael Gibbs, Paul Pena and Tom Jones involved. He also worked with Ahmad Jamal, Pee Wee Ellis, Harvey Brooks and Don Moye.

In September 2007, he died in Chicago, where he conducted a workshop with the Art Ensemble of Chicago.

Disco Graphical Notes

  • Miles Davis Bitches Brew (1969 )
  • Compost, Compost (1971 )
  • Roy Ayers He's Coming ( 1972)
  • Compost, Life is Round ( with Jeanne Lee, Roland Prince, Ed Finney, Lou Courntey, 1973).
  • Chico Freeman, Beyond the Rain ( 1978)
  • Freddie Hubbard The Love Connection (1979 )
  • Taj Mahal and the International Rhythm Band Live & Direct ( 1979)
Music of Africa Jazz fusion Bob Moses (musician) Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia Michael Gibbs (composer) Integrated Authority File
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