Gnawa Power: Bill Laurance mixes it up with Moroccan maestros
Wednesday, July 12, 2017
The mid 20th century saw several jazz A-listers working with the Gnawa, the Sufi healer musicians of Morocco: Archie and Ornette, Randy and Pharaoh, But each year for the last 20 an array of free-thinking musicians from the Motherland and beyond have come to Essaouira, a whitewashed town of cawing gulls and cleansing winds tagged the 'jewel of the Atlantic', to jam with these mystical brotherhoods with their leaping dancers, pentatonic rhythms and repertoire of ancient African Islamic spiritual songs.
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