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...And “Gorée”, Miller’s showcase for bass clarinet, was recast as a resilient song for peace....
...Miller’s bass clarinet feature “Gorée” is well established in his repertoire, and here he captured its bittersweetness with woody tones, swoops from low notes to high and sparse gospel piano support....
...Just offshore lies the Ile de Gorée, a vehicle-free island with a dreamy feel that has become an artists’ retreat....
...He was inspired by travel — a trip to Gorée Island in Senegal and its blood-chilling remnants of the slave trade; a visit to Machu Picchu resonant with the traces of the ancients....
...Tonight, however, as played by Eli Goree, he arrives alone at his victory party, thrown in a motel room by spiritual adviser Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir)....
...And “1677”, all jagged notes, bluesy slippages and silences, recalls the French capture of the Isle of Gorée, which was to become the embarkation point for slaves shipped to the Americas....
...The only ballad, Miller’s bass clarinet feature “Goreé”, inspired by his visit to a Senegal slavehouse, was introduced by sampled orchestral strings....
...“Jekyll & Hyde” mixed cool funk with edge-of-seat jazz, “Gorée” brought on Miller’s haunting bass clarinet, while a final medley moved from unaccompanied ragtime stride to the bass-fuelled high of “Blast...
...US president Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama look out from the door of no return while touring the House of Slaves, or Maison des Esclaves, at Goree Island off the coast of Dakar on Thursday....
...A late-set ballad, inspired, he said, by a visit to the Slave House on Senegal’s Gorée Island, captured anger and rebirth with delicate solo piano and Miller’s bittersweet bass clarinet....
...She always returns to Senegal, where she has lived in many places: from her university dorm, to a bedsit in Dakar, Gorée Island, Thiès, a room above her office and, currently, a modest three-bedroom house...
...His mentor Youssou N’Dour adds thoughtful vocals to the stately “Goree”....
...its commercial shrewdness when it comes to tapping into the popular sentiment of a mainly African-American customer base: customers can take a virtual visit around Senegal’s old slave port on the Île de Gorée...
...In 2003, on Goree Island off the coast of Senegal, Bush did speak of slavery’s toll. The speech won little coverage. Robinson, however, heard it and was shocked....
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