World Music

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Tinariwen's rise in popularity in recent years is the stuff of idealized "world-music" dreams, and it owes to a potent mix of both recorded output and raucous live shows. ❋ Andy Battaglia (2011)

Though he avoided the albums "You're the One" and "Surprise," Mr. Simon dug deep into "Graceland" and "Rhythm of the Saints," his world-music albums released in 1986 and 1990, respectively. ❋ Jim Fusilli (2011)

Speaking very generally, world-music crossover tends to be more thoughtful. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Rather than his usual saxophones and brass, Mr. Morris's current ensemble consists mainly of symphonic strings even the double basses are bowed arco, woodwinds, and world-music instruments. ❋ Will Friedwald (2011)

He was inspired a bit by the annual South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas, which blends an indie-rock club atmosphere with music-industry buzz; by GlobalFest, which showcases world-music artists in New York each January; and chiefly by the APAP conference, which he felt programmed too few jazz showcases and presented them in the dead space of a hotel. ❋ Larry Blumenfeld (2011)

Orchestras tend to approach crossover in one of two ways: pop-culture crossover involving video game music, film music, or pop and rock stars like Sting performing with orchestra and world-music crossover, in which the orchestra explores music of a non-Western tradition. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Even more than Davis, Mr. Corea has expressed himself in countless, widely disparate ensembles, in formats ranging from world-music ensembles to bebop trios to free-form collectives to symphony orchestras. ❋ Will Friedwald (2011)

The son of a car mechanic, Mr. N'dour rose from Senegal's poverty, through studio sessions with producers such as Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel and Wyclef Jean, to become a Grammy-winning world-music star that Rolling Stone magazine once called Africa's most famous living singer. ❋ Drew Hinshaw (2012)

The latter tag refers to the West African rhythm associated with world-music star Youssou N'Dour, one of Ndiaye's patrons, and both terms highlight Ndiaye's penchant for easygoing tunes and unplugged instruments. ❋ Mark Jenkins (2011)

Still other tracks, here and on the band's nine other albums, reflect a wide range of world-music influences, and there are a few that do sound like a well-polished contemporary ensemble such as the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. ❋ Will Friedwald (2011)

Before him stretched a West Hurley, N.Y., soccer field where, 30 years ago, he'd organized two world-music festivals, before that term was common. ❋ Larry Blumenfeld (2011)

The music itself is still an amazing leap, the start of a world-music trend that was completely unself-conscious in its ability to meld South African pop and traditional forms with an American pop sensibility. ❋ Marshall Fine (2012)

The foursome's new album, "Mirrors," features the leader principally on soprano, which he plays with a haunting minor tone that lends the group's work a kind of world-music edge to it — even on standards like "I Fall in Love Too Easily" and Gospel perennials like "Go Down Moses." ❋ Will Friedwald (2011)

From the orchestra's point of view, though, the problem with this kind of world-music crossover initiative is that the orchestra ends up sounding nerdy. ❋ Unknown (2011)

At one end of a Fairgrounds still sodden by Friday's downpour, folk titans Simon & Garfunkel ended their 90-minute reunion by bringing on jazz greats Terence Blanchard and Michael White and zydeco king Rockin 'Dopsie, Jr. for an impromptu jam session on the coda Cecilia which was reminiscent of the world-music sound of Simon's classic Graceland album. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It wasn't until her 50s that she became the darling of the world-music crowd. ❋ Jesse Kornbluth (2011)

"We never saw ourselves as a world-music label, but there wasn't as much interesting music being made in America, and now there is, so we're doing a lot more of that," Mr. Evelev said. ❋ Robert P. Walzer (2011)

Large record stores, what's left of them, often have whole Afrobeat sections in world-music departments, and more major cities are home to local Afrobeat bands than ever before. ❋ Unknown (2010)

CHRISTGAU: "Earthology" is a world-music pastiche that took the Whitefield Brothers 15 years to assemble. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Indeed, Touré's early albums caused a sensation among world-music buffs in the late 80s, and won him the title of "the African John Lee Hooker" (a tag that irked both bluesmen intently). ❋ Unknown (2010)

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