September. ( 1995 ) Eddy Mango ( Eddy )

I love Latin rhythms. I decided to brush off my percussion chops and put something together with the harp! 2/3 clave rules!!!

RhumbaMania for Harp

Episode 11 we explore the connections and cross pollination of Jazz in America and the music of the Caribbean through the 40s 50s and 60s looking at collaboration and cultural exchange

Monthly show hosted by Tyler ( @tylerbarrow ) & George ( @midmetro-fm ) presenting a 2 hour deep dive into the wonderful & expansive world of the music we call Jazz. Each show they will choose a specific era, place or record label to explore and share the colourful tapestry of their findings. Cosmic is space and space is the place.

Hazel Scott - Love me or Leave Me
Machito & Chano Pozo - Porque Tu Sufres
Sabu & His Percussion Ensemble - Aurora Borealis
Dizzy Gillespie - Manteca
Kenny Dorham - Afrodisia 
Mona Baptiste - Calypso Blues
Carmen Cavallaro - Voodoo Moon ( Emlloro) 
Machito - Relax and Mambo 
Sonny Rollins - St. Thomas
Ben Webster - La Rosita 
Bobby Montez - Chango (Santo)
Duke Ellington - Afro-Bossa 
James Moody & His Modernist - Tropicana
Cal Tjader - Midnight Sun 
Art Blakey - The Sacrifice
Cachao - Descarga Cubana
Mongo Santamaria - Afro Blue 
Thelonious Monk - Caravan 
Rupert Clemendore - Bongo Mood 
Issa El Saeih - Nan Pwen Lavi Anko 
Gandinga, Mondongo y Sandunga - Quinteto Instrumental de Musica Moderna
Eric Dolphy & The Latin Jazz Quintet - Caribe
Rupert Clemendore - Eastern Conga 
The Horace Silver Quintet - Nica’s Dream
Tito Puente - Para Los

Cosmic Tones for Expansion - October 8th 2025

Started out as a Rhumba Guaguanco experiment. 8 hours later!!!  LOL. Some serious bottom here!

Funky Space Rhumba

Play it. ( 1997 ) Eddy Mango ( Eddy )

Latin groove lately...Finally! The harpist gives the percussion section a break! Took rhumba, isolated all the parts, put them back together and added solos!

RhumbaMania

QUÁN XƯA (*)

Started out with a straight rhumba, and decided to add berimbau, running through a pedalboard. I am big into crossing musical continents. The berimbau, borrowed from Kimbundu mbirimbau is a traditional Angolan musical bow that is commonly used in Brazil. It is also known as sekitulege among the Baganda and Busoga.

It consists of a single-stringed bow attached to a gourd resonator and is played with a stick and a coin or stone to create different tones and rhythms.

The berimbau was used in many parts of Africa and Brazil during the 19th century to accompany chants and storytelling. It is part of the candomblé tradition, later incorporated into the Afro-Brazilian art capoeira.

Rhumba Berimbau

Temptation by Tom Waits performed by The Sarah McDonald Quintet at The Cool Room at The Northern Arts Hotel in Castlemaine featuring Kumar Shome on guitar, Ron Romero on sax, Luke Andresen on drums, James Lockwood on bass and me, Sarah McDonald on voice.

Temptation Northern Arts 5th Oct 24

Welcome to Tembo Sounds – The Culture show #600 — a celebration of rhythm across generations and continents! Tonight we groove from Martha Reeves, David Bowie, and The Temptations to the funk of Chic, Parliament, and Teena Marie. Then we journey into reggae legends, soulful house cuts, Amapiano jazz, East African heat, and modern African anthems from Rema, Marioo & Bien, Zuchu, and Burna Boy. Six hundred shows strong—thank you for riding the rhythm with The Culture!

@TemboSounds #600 - Soul, Funk, House Classics & Rhumba

"Sarah McDonald effortlessly segues from applying a dash of tropical swelter to thirties standards, tinkering with Thelonius Monk torch songs to a soul jazz rendition of an Amy Winehouse classic." 

Joel Shortman, Rathdowne Records.

"..deceptively laid back and self-assured, with an undercurrent of emotions waiting to sweep you by. When she sings “Rusted brandy in a diamond glass”, it’s the rust she focuses on, not the diamond. Tom Waits would approve...

..There’s a lot of nostalgic glamour associated with the ’20s and ’30’s era. Singers who choose to sing this material often end up as replicas of the sultry divas of the past, dressing up in satin gowns and pearls and stale femininity. Not Sarah McDonald. She approaches her material with a tomboyish attitude, phrasing the classic jazz and obscure torch songs that comprise her set list with a punk sensitivity and a kind of modern-day angst delivered by this beautiful, soulful chili-infused chocolate voice of hers. When she opens her mouth, she showers her audience with raw emotion. No pretense, no polished femininity, no nonsense. It helps that she’s sexy as hell when she does it; and that she’s surrounded by a killer band: Ron Romero on tenor sax, Kumar Shome on guitar, Ben Hanlon on the bass and Lewis Pierre-Humbert on the drums. As these musicians spew fire from their instruments, people get up and dance to her singing, even if she sings Monk’s “I mean you” (not the most danceable song out there)."

Nikos Fotakis, australianjazz.net

Sarah McDonald evokes cool smoky jazz club atmosphere with expressive melifluous phrasing contrasting with rhythmic dexterity.  She is a singer who has been as influenced by horn players and drummers as she has by the great vocalists. Having delved deeply into music, she draws from the greats of the history of jazz, blues and soul and selects choice standards, along with original, contemporary and more esoteric repertoire that she infuses with a soulful authenticity.

She has had a wealth of experience performing original music in various guises, playing in a range of contemporary original bands, world music ensembles and playing music for circus, theatre and film.

She also plays flute and sings in Tarab Ensemble, playing classical Arabic music:

https://www.facebook.com/thisistarab/


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