This double CD set includes the original multi-platinum-selling album, produced by Al Ham, and its twin sister, More Drums of Passion, produced by Teo Macero and released in 1966. Each CD features the original albums augmented by jazz-steeped bonus tracks produced by Ham and Hammmond. Newly remastered from the original two track masters - staying true to the original production of the LPs by multi-Grammy winning engineer Mark Wilder. Recorded in 1959, Babatunde Olatunji's Drums of Passion proved to be a m...   [ read more ]

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Billed as "traditional African Meditation Music," this provocative mix of tribal wails, chants, and hypnotic percussion patterns is the first posthumous release from a Nigerian master whose impact on Western culture was profound and demands attention. Linked to the African education of Malcolm X, John Coltrane, and inspiring Martin Luther King, Jr., Olatunji (who died in April 2003) later collaborated with the Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart to create the ultimate percussion supergroup, {$...   [ read more ]

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Having come to the U.S. from his native Nigeria to study medicine, percussionist Babatunde Olatunji eventually became one of the first African music stars in the States. He also soon counted jazz heavyweights like John Coltrane ("Tunji") and Dizzy Gillespie among his admirers (Gillespie had, a decade earlier, also courted many Cuban music stars via his trailblazing Latin jazz recordings). And, in spite of it being viewed by some as a symbol of African chic, Drums of Passion is still a sub...   [ read more ]

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