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Artist: Babatunde Olatunji
Author: Babatunde Olatunji
Label: Columbia
Year: 1959
Nigerian drummer who moved to California with a scholarship in the late fifties. Accepted as a brother within jazz circles (he played on Cannonball Adderley's African Waltz in '61). Carlos Santana's conga player Marcus Malone go-betweened, landing Babatunde a Columbia (John Hammond) record deal and some gigs supporting The Grateful Dead. Came out on his debut album Drums Of Passion which is a literal translation of Jin-Go-Lo-Ba. See also: Akiwowo.
Covers:
Serge Gainsbourg [as Marabout; see also Akiwowo; one out of three tracks Serge lifted from that Drums Of Passion album, the third one being Joanna, a cover of Olatunji's Kiyakiya]
Santana [n°1 B as Jingo]
Oldest Santana recording on Live At The Fillmore 1968 (see also: Evil Ways); their first studio version at Paul Curcio's Pacific Studio, along with Persuasion, Treat and Soul Sacrifice, three other tracks ending up on Santana's first official Columbia lp.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)