Global Drum Project
Former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart didn't invent world music. But he was among the first to take it out of the hands of ethnomusicologists and into the clutches of pop culture. Eighteen years ago, Hart and tabla titan Zakir Hussain won the first World Music Grammy for their spellbindingly percussive 1991 collaboration Planet Drum. Well, guess what, cats and kittens? History has repeated itself, sort of, as the Global Drum Project -- which again teams Hart and Husse
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SFJAZZ has announced its 27th season, which kicks off October 10 with a Thelonious Monk birthday party and ends November 21 with a "Double-Barreled Blues Bash" featuring Keb' Mo and Solomon Burke. Highlights include October 22's show, "Afro-Cuban Keystones," with the Omar Sosa Quintet and the John Santos Sextet; October 28's "Meeting of the Minds" with Bela Fleck, Zakir Hussain, and Edgar Meyer; Dee Dee Bridgewater's "Tribute to Lady Day" on October 3