Taj Mahal & Bassekou Kouyate et Bassekou Kouyaté au festival Jazz à Vienne (2014)

Taj Mahal, great musician, icon blues and world music, is able to control twenty instruments, including guitars and dobros, dulcimer, banjo and harmonica.

The figure of "the blues revival" in the mid-60s, the Taj Mahal is a prolific creator, a musicologist, an explorer of African-American music, Africa, the Caribbean, India and Hawaii. It was during a recording session in a studio Georgian Taj Mahal meets griot Toumani Diabaté. Trade on the links between blues and Manding music was born the album "Kulanjan" (1999). Today you can hear the heartbeat of the Mandingo tradition in the modern electrified Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni. Committed, Malian musician calls for peace in his country and tolerance. Taj Mahal invited the Malian scenario Bassekou Kouyate, a worthy heir to the Mandinka culture, the two accomplices now prolong the magic of this meeting.