world-music

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.

Home Cooking, Foreign Fare Andy Battaglia 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.

Jazz's 70-Year Flavor of the Month 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.

Senegal Music Star Seeks Presidency Drew Hinshaw 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."

Freddie, Jacky, Charlie and the Doc Will Friedwald 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.

Russ Gershon's Wide Big-Band World 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.

NSO review: Tabla meets West as 'India' concert strikes a crossover convergence 2011

Speaking very generally, world-music crossover tends to be more thoughtful.

Crossover: NSO goes to India 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.

Crossover: NSO goes to India 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.

Another day at Jazz Fest ends on a high note 2010

It wasn't until her 50s that she became the darling of the world-music crowd.

Jesse Kornbluth: Cesaria Evora (1941-2011): One of the Great Divas, Too Little Known Jesse Kornbluth 2011