Cheick Tidiane Seck 6tet & Guest - Live at Cully Jazz Festival (2013)

Malian star Salif Keita defines music as a tree: the roots represent African music, the trunk is jazz, the branches and fruits are rock, funk, reggae and other music. His compatriot Cheick Tidiane Seck is undoubtedly the perfect synthesis and illustration of this metaphor. Multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and musical director, Cheick Tidiane Seck is best known for his keyboard skills. Throughout his career, he has accompanied artists as varied as Jimmy Cliff, Fela, Joe Zawinul, Carlos Santana or Hank Jones. A great musician, whose know-how has been exercised in the shadows, far from the spotlight of world music. Seck is a rebel; he refuses to lock African music in a ghetto, to make it a "third music".