Babatunde Olatunji and Drums of Passion - Santa Cruz - 1995

Jingo-lo-ba (Olantunji's song - Santana famously covered it) at Palookaville in Santa Cruz, California.

Olatunji - vocals/ashiko drums
Gordy Ryan - djun djun/bell
Yao Tamakloe - djembe
Yuji Tojo - guitar
Wole Alade - saxophone
David Price - bass
not sure of the rest on this gig...

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[cchitouras]

It's great to see this. Thanks. I played guitar with Baba for 12 years in his west coast band and sometimes with the NY band and was also playing this show. The other musicians playing in this lineup are myself, Chris Chitouras, on guitar, Phil Cardillo - guitar, and I think Sikiru, who usually played talking drum, was not there this night. Thanks again

[bpbass]

Thanks for filling in the rest of the blanks, Chris. I only had this segment so I identified who I could see -- though I knew I was on it.

dp

[prosepp]

well, i didn´t know that Santana covered this one from Babtunde Olatunji

[bpbass]

Original was on the John Hammond produced "Drums of Passion" album from 1959 - on Columbia Records. Was an early stereo "hi-fi" recording and a huge seller at the time.

[yarekhunt]

This song STILL makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up! AMAZING!!!!

[robertmazzo]

@cchitouras I was a friend of the late Phil Cardillo, RIP. A great man and a great musician. I saw him in the NYC band at SOB's back in 1998 or 1999.

[cchitouras]

Also in the lineup was Chris Chitouras and Phil Cardillo on guitars as well. Much fun was had that night.

[NJtoTX]

Baba was great after shows like this. He'd take a long line of visitors in his dressing room and was always happy to see people, even when his eyesight went.

[wmbrown6]

Sounds like a typical clerical mixup to me (on Columbia's part, that is). Also what one gets with a label that had a classical-music division (in their case, Columbia Masterworks, which did release a few renditions of certain Copland works).

[quartercherries]

Interesting...I'm not familiar with Copeland, but I feel there's a possibility he's speaking of the blind nationalist, for lack of a better word, movement(perversion) which came to be known as Jingoism. What does jingo mean in the context of olatunji's language, etc.? It sounds really silly, but I used to think the Santana version went "jingo...go-va, va" I thought it was a political statement in the context of the vietnam war.

[wmbrown6]

Besides, the only thing Copland's "Jingo" had in common with "Jin-Go-Lo-Ba" (and I've heard the former myself) was the tempo.

[wmbrown6]

Not to mention to Columbia Records.