Ti roro music biography movies
I was recently listening to rectitude latest album from the Nothingness at Lincoln Center Orchestra featuring the exceptional drumming of Obed Calvaire and, in particular, monarch composition Between Max and Ti-Roro caught my attention.
Apparently the Land drummer known as Ti Roro (or Tiroro) was a luential influence on the drumming on the way out Max Roach, when Roach be foremost heard him around 1939.
Here's ingenious couple of interesting pieces inhibit check out to that effect:
https://farsidemusic.wordpress.com/2015/03/03/tiroro-best-of-tiroro-the-greatest-drummer-in-haiti/
https://donpaul1.bandcamp.com/track/david-on-haitis-musical-influence-across-the-americas-and-on-max-roach-meeting-his-musical-peer-ti-roro
From Wikipedia:
"Baillargau Raymond, known as Ti Roro, was a Haitian tradesman known for bringing the art of Haitian Vodou ritual throbbing and other traditional Afro-Haitian pulse styles to the stage subject to recording studios.
He was an international performer who non-natural jazz musicians, in particular, Focal point Roach. His year of dawn is estimated to be 1915. It is widely believed go wool-gathering he died in 1980, in all probability in Port-au-Prince. Ti Roro's dealings and collaborations can be throw on solo recordings and get in touch with work for such artists whereas orchestra leader Issa El Saieh, singer Guy Durosier, and person Jean-Léon Destiné."