New-York drummer Ron Jefferson was a founding member of The Jazz Modes and the Les McCann Trio. After a first album under his name on Pacific Jazz in 1962, he legged it to Paris, where his creative focus was a trio with Roland Haynes (who would record for Black Jazz) and guitarist Buz Saviano. Just before this session for Polydor International in 1965, they played a series of concerts in Dakar, and the killer cut here Africa The Beautiful is dotted with mbalax drumming alongside Ron’s flautism, in the same vein as Yusef Lateef’s Afro-Eastern explorations.
Remastered by Sam Records from the original master tapes.