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This documentary brings back to life the artist who was able to tell North Americans: “Jazz was born in your land, but I took it back to my land, Africa, because its there that it finds its source.”
A true king of swing and improvisation, Momo Wandel Soumah (1926-2003) was the doyen of African jazz. He created his music without composing it, by drawing inspiration from popular songs, and by bringing together around his voice – sounding like a kind of “Louis Armstrong who’s come out of his savannah” – and his old, beaten up sax, the great masters of traditional African instruments: kora, balafon, pastoral flute, djembé, etc.
Momo’s music resembled a magical cocktail capable of transporting you without a warning from traditional music to the avant garde.
Born in Guinea in the late twenties, Momo Le Doyen was a privileged witness of contemporary African history: he experienced the colonial era with his orchestras only allowed to perform for whites-only balls and the independence of 1958, ...
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監督 (1)
俳優 (1)
映画製作・配給会社 (2)
- 製作代表 : Sombrero and Co
- フランス国内配給 : Les Films du Paradoxe
クレジットタイトル詳細 (10)
- フォトディレクター : Laurent Chevallier
- Editors : Matthieu Augustin, Clara Bouffartigue
- Sound recordists : Erik Ménard, Olivier Schwob
- Producers : Patrick Villeneuve, Sabrina Azoulay, Valérie Abita
- 製作部長 : Rodolphe Legentil
- 報道担当(映画) : François Vila
- 製作アシスタント : Eric Hallier
- Compositor : Momo Wandel Soumah
- データ作成者 : Pascal Torbey
- サウンド・ミキサー : Stéphane Larrat
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技術面詳細
- タイプ : 長編映画
- ジャンル : ドキュメンタリー
- テーマ : 音楽
- 言語 : フランス語
- その他の国の共同制作者 : フランス
- Original French-language productions : 不明