“I think the big musical moment happened for me in my second year of college, after I went to the US. That was when I really got into both jazz and classical, at the same time. I was amazed at how well certain things held up to repeated listenings: Coltrane, Mahler, Beethoven. Not long after came ‘world music’, and I had a similarly stunned reaction to my first encounters with the likes of Ali Farka Touré and Oumou Sangaré.”
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Filed under: Biography, Classical Music, Jazz, Literature, Music, Popular Music Tagged: Ali Farka Touré, American Literature, Featured Article, Gustav Mahler, John Coltrane, Ludwig van Beethoven, Nigerian Literature, Oumou Sangaré, Teju Cole
