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My Kind of Music: Whistle Stop with Kenny Dorham, Hank Mobley et al

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicOctober 28, 20160 comments

Thursday October 27, 2016 It started snowing early this morning. First snow of the season. Cold day outside. After a long day at work, what better way to unwind than listening to KENNY DORHAM (trumpet), in the good company of Hank Mobley (tenor sax), Kenny Drew (piano), Paul Chambers ...

Bud Powell: Genius of the piano - his music lives!

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicSeptember 27, 20160 comments

Happy birthday to all friends who were born on September 27! You share the date with the great genius of Jazz piano music - both as a composer and player. Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell was born on September 27, 1924. Bud Powell Sept 27, 1924 - July 31, 1967 By the time of his premature ...

John Coltrane at 90

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicSeptember 23, 20160 comments

John Coltrane would have been 90 years old today. Whereas there have been many great Jazz Saxophone players, to my ears Coltrane is one of the top 5 (the others being Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Lester Young and Hank Mobley.)  His playing was so uniquely his that it is difficult ...

Thank you for the music Rudy Van Gelder (1924-2016)

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicAugust 26, 20160 comments

If, like me, you consider the great Jazz recordings from the 1950s and 60s on Blue Note, Prestige and Impulse labels to be some of the greatest treasures in the creative arts, you should spare a moment and thank the recording engineer who made it possible for us to enjoy the exceptional ...

Beethoven's Piano Concertos

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of MusicMarch 19, 20160 comments

Of all the works that Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) wrote, his five piano concertos are almost certainly the most popular with audiences. Here in Toronto, a Beethoven piano concerto featuring a great soloist partnered with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra is usually sold out weeks ...

Lalo Symphonie Espagnole: timeless beauty of the violin

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Classical MusicAugust 8, 20160 comments

Composer: Edouard Lalo 1823-1892), Frenchman Music: Symphonie Espagnole in D Minor, Op. 21 This is a violin concerto, composed in 1874. A timeless, beautiful work, with a lot of Spanish sounds. Exquisitely sweet when played by the masters. I first heard this work in 1994, on a ...

The Forging of an African Nation: The Political and Constitutional Evolution of Uganda from Colonial Rule to Independence, 1894-1962 – By G.S.K Ibingira (1973)

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of BooksJanuary 12, 20190 comments

Grace Stewart Katebariirwe Ibingira was a 30-year old youth at Uganda’s independence in 1962. A founder member of the Uganda People’s Congress in 1960, Ibingira was at the centre of national politics during those critical years of transition. Just a little over three years after ...

The Political Kingdom in Uganda: A Study in Bureaucratic Nationalism – By David E. Apter (Revised Third Edition, 1997)

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of BooksJanuary 12, 20190 comments

This book is an analytical study of the internal and external politics and systems of Buganda, the central and largest kingdom in Uganda. The development of political parties and the great conflicts in post 1900 Buganda are thoroughly presented and analysed. But more than politics, ...

Fabrication of EMPIRE: The British and the Uganda Kingdoms, 1890-1902 – By D. A. Low

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of BooksJanuary 11, 20190 comments

This book’s title could well have been “How Uganda came to be.”  D. A. Low, who taught at Makerere University College, Uganda, from 1951 to 1958, presents an excellent account and analysis of the formation of the post-1900 kingdoms of Ankole, Buganda, Bunyoro, Busoga and Toro. These ...

Sundiata: An Epic of Mali – By D.T. Niane (1965)

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of BooksJanuary 11, 20190 comments

This is the English translation (by G.D. Pickett) of D.T. Niane’s part history/part legend of Sundiata Keita, the thirteenth century founder of the Great Empire of Mali, and great uncle of the famous Mansa Musa. It is a short but very captivating story, only 84 pages long. This ...

The Baganda: An Account of Their Native Customs and Beliefs - By Rev. John Roscoe (1911)

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of BooksJanuary 11, 20190 comments

This is a classic book that has been reprinted many times since its publication in 1911. The Rev. John Roscoe (1861-1932), a civil engineer, was a member of the Church Missionary Society in Uganda from 1891 to 1909.  The book, based on notes he compiled, over an 18 year period, ...

The Great Lakes of Africa: Two Thousand Years of History – By Jean-Pierre Chretien

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of BooksJanuary 11, 20190 comments

This is an English translation (by Scott Straus) of a scholarly book that successfully stitches together the complex and long story of kingdoms, chiefdoms, traditions, alliances, hatreds, settlements, movements, colonization, political independence and violence that have shaped one ...

The King’s Men: Leadership and Status in Buganda on the Eve of Independence - Edited by L.A. Fallers (1964)

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of BooksJanuary 10, 20190 comments

  This is a multi-author presentation of Buganda’s progress during the century between first contact with Europeans and Independence in 1962. We learn about Buganda’s hierarchical political organization that was later exported to many parts of Uganda. The description and analysis ...

The Social Origins of Violence in Uganda, 1964-1985 – By A.B.K. Kasozi

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of BooksJanuary 10, 20190 comments

This is one of the most thorough and accessible examinations of Uganda’s post-independence violence and bloodshed. Professor Kasozi presents a compelling argument that the central problem has been social inequality, economic disparities, a culture of poor to absent conflict resolution ...

Origins of Kingship Traditions and Symbolism in the Great Lakes Region of Africa – By Birgitta Farelius (2008)

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of BooksJanuary 11, 20190 comments

Tradition holds that the foundation stone of the kingdoms of the Great Lakes Area was laid by the Bacwezi, a mysterious people that lived and ruled the area before disappearing “into the lake.” Central to the Bacwezi community and their descendants was the cow as an economic commodity, ...

Two Kings of Uganda, or Life by the Shores of Victoria Nyanza, Being an Account of a Residence of Six Years in Eastern Equatorial Africa - By Robert Pickering Ashe.

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of BooksJanuary 10, 20190 comments

Allowing for the biased lenses of a British missionary, this is a very informative account of Buganda in the period 1883-86. Originally published in 1889, the copy I have is a Second Edition (1971) with a very good introduction by John Rowe, a historian, which is itself a concise ...

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