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This page now mentions all the players I have photos of on this website - you are all stars :-)

Master Drummers: Mamady Keita, Jean-Marie Keita, David Oladunni, Ade Wallace, Osibisa and Craig Morrison
Dartington International Summer School: Ashanti court drumming, Ensemble Bash and jazz quintet
My own musical projects: The Naked Truth, Secret Bass, Vitae Drum Circle, Canopus Percussion Ensemble, Mundo Pequeno and DJ Spock
Jamming with friends and Birthday celebrations
Other musicians: Crooked Sixpence, Toque Tambor, The Lani Singers, Mambesak Group and Grizzly Walking Thunder

Master Drummers

Here are pictures of some of the master drummers I've met. Others I've studied with who are not pictured include the wonderful Fats Ramoba Mogoboya and his singer wife Nomsa, Nana Tsiboe, Baba Kone, Seckou Keita, Jean-Marie Keita, Nansady Keita, Famoudou Konate and Moctar "Mocolo" Sawane

Mamady Keita, undisputed djembe master of Earth, came over to England to teach us in May 2008. Check my report now with pictures...

The Master Drummers of Africa, photographed (hand-held at 1/8 second!) by Craig Morrison at London's South Bank Centre in 1996. From left to right are three of my teachers: (seated) Mamadi Kamara, ?, Nana Tsiboe, David Oladunni, and ? (standing).

While in Senegal we were lucky enough to study with Jean-Marie Keita, Malo Sonko and Appai - a great dancer and dun dun player.

Famoudou Konate, Drumzkool and Senegambian concert at African Drum Village 2007 in Scotland.

Master drummer Adesose Wallace leading a jubilant crowd at the height of the final ceremony of the Tribe of Doris festival in 1998.

This drumming workshop in Leeds was held as a tribute to the late great Musa Suma, led by Adesose Wallace and other teachers.

After we tracked him down recently, Ade has come to The Strawbale Studio a few times to teach us his wonderful music.

Afrofunk masters Osibisa playing at The Horn in St. Albans.

Craig Morrison, my spiritual brother and fellow Canopus percussionist now based in Sydney, Australia.

Dartington International Summer School

Rehearsing and performing drum music of the Ashanti Court at Dartington 2001, under the direction of Johnson Kwadzo Kemeh from the University of Ghana.

Playing samba music in the sunshine with Ensemble Bash at Dartington 2000.

Jazz Quintet at Dartington 2001 in laid-back mode, and then putting our heads together to contemplate our upcoming disc of Mati Caspi and Ray Charles numbers. Clockwise from bottom left is singer Dafna Dori from Jerusalem, bassoonist Jim Pywell and double bassist Sally Clark from Halifax, pianist Rene Schelldorfer from Switzerland, then me.

My own musical projects

The Cast and The Minstrels from the production of T.S. Eliot's play "Murder In The Cathedral" staged in Essendon Church, Hertfordshire, on 2000-03-26.