Blacks In PROG?

Nazgul wrote: krauthead wrote: Nazgul wrote: blacks can't play prog, and white can't play basketball So Wrong Yes a few white can play basketball Oh... come on dont be so serious

I'm not so serious but it's wrong... totally.

Though african americans are way better in prog than caucasians playing basketball for sure. 

Eetu Pellonpää wrote: How about OSIBISA? At least they had covers by Roger Dean...

Yeah, with those flying elephants and stuff 

paulindigo wrote: Jimmy Jackson, who played keyboards with German bands Embryo and Amon Düül II and Noel McCalla, the vocalist on Rutherford's Smallcreep's Day

since you mention Embryo: Maria Archer, singer on "Bad Heads and Bad Cats" and "Live", was black too

Nazgul wrote: krauthead wrote: Nazgul wrote: krauthead wrote: Nazgul wrote: blacks can't play prog, and white can't play basketball So Wrong Yes a few white can play basketball Oh... come on dont be so serious I'm not so serious but it's wrong... totally. Though african americans are way better in prog than caucasians playing basketball for sure.  Ha ha . Ok I dont know more about this theme. Maybe You recomend me some music about this please

The kraut band Exmagma having 3 members and the african american drummer Fred Braceful is super, this is stoned jamming craziness and not for everyone... but I love it 

Matt Eiland played bass Boud Deun. I really need to put Astronomy Made Easy in the CD player. Must been ages since I listened to it last time.

Also Mark London Sims of Dark. But of them I know nothing...

jackinthegreen wrote: I think Osibisa also played on Uriah Heep's Look At Yourself. One more black guy: Hassan Bah, percussionist of the swedish progband Kebnekaise.

Damn, how could I forget about Hassan? Kebnekaise is an old favourite. He was the percussionist. Most black prog-musicians seems to play in the rhytm section...

Ljus från Afrika (Lights of Africa) och Elefanten (The Elephant) is as far a I know African music inspired albums by this wonderful group.

Kebnekaise is most known of making prog rock of traditional swedish folk music.

Rebop Kwaku Baah: percussion, vocals, polymoog
Rosko Gee: bass, vocals, Fender Rhodes, Flange bass

both members of Can for a while

Anyone heard of 'The Rotary Connection'???

I've liked this band for years. From Chicago, they formed in the late 60's they were a rock/soul fusion band described as having elements of progressive psychedelia on some albums. Their lead singer was Minnie Ripperton. They never achieved the commercial success they deserved, as the black community rejected them for their rock element, and a lot of the rock community couldn't dig their 'soul' side. They had a cult following and I think they deserve a mention.

Read all about it!..

http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/norway/119/rotaryconnectio n.html

BTW: if anyone can find a download of a RC song called 'I am the black gold of the sun' then check mit out. It's f***in' brilliant!

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What about JULIAN JAY SAVARIN? He made two superb albums of
symphonic progressive, one with his band JULIAN'S TREATMENT and one
under his own name, before going on to become a very famous science
fiction author. HAWK (later JOBURG HAWK) were a multiracial South
African band who cut a few proggy tracks, including a couple of side-long
epics. And the German band WITCHDANCE PROJECT fused neo-prog and
soul, with a black female singer.

samhob wrote: Then we must convert the singer of thin lizzy to prog

That could be a bit tricky.