Mokhtar Samba
Mokhtar Samba (born May 3, 1960 in Sidi Kacem ) is a French jazz musician ( drums , also vocals, composition) of Moroccan origin.
Live and act
Samba grew up in a humble environment. His Senegalese father was an employee of the Société Cherifienne de pétrole . His Moroccan mother raised eleven siblings next to him. Although not musically trained herself, it was she who introduced her son to music by regularly taking him to weddings and christenings. At the age of twelve he migrated with his family to France, where he grew up in Champigny-sur-Marne , one of the eastern suburbs of Paris. From the age of 16 he learned to play drums; at the Conservatory of Fontenay-sous-Bois he was instructed in music theory and classical percussion. In the early 1980s he moved to Paris, where he performed with Lavelle and Viviane Reed and where Eddy Louiss discovered him. He played for Multicolor Feeling for four years . In 1985 he founded the fusion band Ultramarine with pianist Mario Canonge and Nguyên Lê .
In 1986 Samba toured France with Jaco Pastorius . In the following year Antoine Hervé brought him to the Orchester National de Jazz , to which he belonged until 1989; in addition, the collaboration with Salif Keïta began . As a drummer, he accompanied Keïta on dozens of albums as well as Youssou N'Dour , Carlos Santana , Alpha Blondy , Carlinhos Brown (1996), Michel Jonasz , Manu Dibango , Richard Bona and the Zawinul Syndicate .
Samba also presented his own albums, initially Dounia (2006); a second album with his own works followed in 2009. mélange is a central term for the compositional work of Mokhtar: "He mixes and combines the language of jazz with (North) African elements and thus shifts its boundaries." In 2016 he introduced his from Michael Mossman prepared compositions in Germany specially arranged for the WDR Big Band Cologne ; The resulting CD Musique D'Afrique also included African and French guests such as keyboardist Jean-Philippe Rykiel . He can also be heard on albums by Safy Boutella , Jean-Luc Ponty , Sally Nyolo , Hadrien Feraud and Habib Faye.
Discographic notes
- Marc Steckar , Bernard Arcadio, Alain Lecointe, Mokhbar Samba Endless Staircase (Cream Records 1984)
- Lionel Benhamou, Jean-Jacques Avenel , Tony Rabeson , Zool Fleischer , Marc Bertaux , Mokhtar Samba, Andy Emler Fruits cuits fruits crus (Open 1989)
- Dounia (O + Music 2005)
- Musique d'Afrique (Jazzline 2016)
Web links
- portrait
- Mokhtar Samba at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Samba, Mokhtar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French jazz musician (drums, also vocals, composition) of Moroccan origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 3, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sidi Kacem |