From the Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio Archives:
Congo Square 
Broadcast date:January 10, 2008
Impassioned cries and percussion from New Orleans's Congo Square - where plantation slaves could nourish their own music - inspire Wynton Marsalis's and Yacub Addy's epic work for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Odadaa! -- a nine-piece Ghanaian drumming and chanting troupe. Written by Lauren Krenzel. Wynton Marsalis hosts.

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