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Week of April 4

Karibu

By Lionel Loueke; Now in Stores
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Take a gifted West African teenager, hit him with some George Benson, move him to the U.S., and soon you have rising jazz guitarist Lionel Loueke. Karibu is a jamboree of sprung rhythms, splashed with African and Brazilian flavors, in which Loueke, 34, scat-sings, drums on his guitar, mouth-clicks and — oh, yes — plays some wicked jazz.

Grade: B+

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