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JazzTimes
November 2002
Bay
Area percussionist Ian Dogole's mission
is clear: to follow the trail of easy-going,
world-colored jazz established groups like Oregon.
To that end, he steers clear of a drum kit,
per se, preferring sundry ethnic percussion
instruments (mostly hand drums), and also leans
on Oregon's Paul McCandless to supply melodic
logic and bassist/bamboo flutist Bill Douglass
to anchor the core trio. In the interest of
living up to the global-fusion concept on his
new album, Night Harvest (Global Fusion),
and to state the case for jazz's mutability,
Dogole opens with a version of McCoy Tyner's
"Message from the Nile," fitted
with an apt lyric written and sung by Nubian
master Hamza el Din. Later, we hear Monk's jubilant
"Bemsha Swing" with four
horns and bass bouncing atop Dogole's rhythmic
pulse on just the Peruvian cajon, a fresh approach.
Along the way, Dogole's originals pay tribute
to subjects as disparate as Orca whales, Wilt
Chamberlain and the rippling charms of the mbira.
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