The world-renowned kora (a West African harp) player from Mali performs an adaptation of his recent album along with the Grant Park Orchestra. Nonesuch records, which released Diabaté's album, declared that he has “learnt from Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix, yet remains entirely true to the kora player’s Mandé griot tradition.”

Mandé Variations
Grant Park Orchestra; Carlos Kalmar, Conductor, Toumani Diabaté, Kora

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Added by Millennium Park Chicago on March 12, 2010

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Category: Music

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