Roland Brival tells the story behind his track ‘ABCD’ #music #jazz #creole #martinique

Roland Brival tells the story behind his track ‘ABCD’ from his album Créole Gypsy (1980) A fusion of Caribbean spiritual jazz, poetry and Creole consciousness 🎷

Sung in Creole, ‘ABCD’ follows a child whose first lessons did not come from the classroom, but from the drum 🥁

“Yo té voyé mwin lékol
Pou apwann ABCD
Lè mwin rivé dan lékol la
Sé tambou mwin apwann jwé”

English translation:
“They sent me to school
To learn ABCD
When I got to school
I learned to play the drum”

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