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Guitarist Lionel Loueke, from Benin, has enjoyed a steadily rising profile since arriving in the USA in 1999. Karibu is his fifth album as a leader, his first for a major label. When Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter endorse a rising star and then agree to be sidemen on his album, it is time to sit up and take notice. (They were last sidemen on a Blue Note album in 1967.) Hancock recalls the first time he heard Loueke play, "I'd never heard any guitar player play anything close to what I was hearing from him. There was no territory that was forbidden, and he was fearless...
Source: allaboutjazz
Author: John Eyles
