{"title":"Abdoulaye N'diaye","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn his early years in Dakar Senegal, young Abdoulaye Ndiaye started learning the saxophone by stealing his dad’s alto saxophone and blowing into it. A few years later at age 14 he started taking lessons from his father, then as a teen ,joined the conservatoire and began formal musical study with eastern Europeans teachers.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFew years later, Abdoulaye met legendary jazz teacher Sam Sanders at the conservatoire in dakar and started jazz improvisation class. After graduating from the conservatoire, he began to play with local bands and record with local artists like Pape Dieng Souleyman, Faye Abl Aye Mbaye, Harmattan Pape Djiby ba, Mike Gomis and others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn 1995 Abdoulaye met world famous piano player McCoy Tyner and played with him at the Saint Louis Jazz Festival. Later Abdoulaye started traveling Europe playing clubs and meeting many influential jazz musicians like Billy Harper, Michael Becker, David Murray, Mal Waldron, Steve Houben and many others.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAfter moving back to Dakar, Abdoulaye got a call from David Murray asking him to join his Octet and Big Band.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2001 Ndiaye moved to New York and toured with David Murray. After the tour, he found work as a side man or in his own bands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbdoulaye describes the period as “Running form club to club, expressing myself self and meeting lots of other musicats”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/0f2TU7pcDjffDd5l40JS6R\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003ci class=\"fa fa-spotify fa-3x\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"taoue-2","title":"Taoue","description":"\u003cp\u003eTaoue (Justin Time) is an Abdoulaye N'Diaye release produced by David Murray. In one of the meatier portions of \"Aduna,\" singer Tidiane Gaye flows Islamic-inflected Wolof vocalizations, after a remarkable kora improvisation, as the performance frees itself into a liberating Afro-jazz romp coda with brain-opening soprano sax closing choruses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eN'Diaye's Senegalese musical heritage is avowedly influenced by American jazz sax players as well as his classical conservatory education in Europe. The strong writing and playing of this young musician is at ease with traditional African material, per \"Casa Leule,\" or irresistibly tribal jazzy melodious reedings on \"Xarrit Sama.\" N'Diaye musters any technique available to a saxophonist with a repertoire ranging from bebop, such as \"Cobb's Cat\"-with an enriched Dave Burrell piano solo-to the relentless marching swing of \"Wakhtane\" or the hip, sultry, mainstream jazz ballad \"Darn That Dream.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eN'Diaye has enviable intonation, range, intelligence and chameleonic skills as a soprano, alto and tenor sax polyglot.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Abdoulaye N'diaye","offers":[{"title":"Digital Download","offer_id":39435860213920,"sku":"0068944016853","price":9.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":39435876860064,"sku":"","price":15.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0537\/8477\/2768\/products\/7fc0b847-fda7-4d8e-8afe-f08c958684844130774281772468912-LARGE_2bf5c6ad-cff4-48df-b99e-706342775525.jpg?v=1615416018"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0537\/8477\/2768\/collections\/AbdoulayeNdiaye.jpg?v=1615924129","url":"https:\/\/justin-time-records.myshopify.com\/collections\/abdoulaye-ndiaye.oembed","provider":"Justin Time Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}