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Ubiquity Jazz. New release from this master percussionist. Touches of Latin and funk make this album a must for fans of straight ahead with a touch of soul-jazz Babatunde Lea is a Bay Area percussionist, and an established session musician. He has worked alongside Pharaoh Sanders, Van Morrison, McCoy Tyner, Leon Thomas, Joe Henderson, John Tchicai, and Bobby Hutcherson, before recording an album for Ubiquity Jazz that will remind listeners that he is a skilled band leader, too. For his

I've been a Musician since my early teenage years. I started out wanting to be a guitar player and that was the first instrument that I owned. I switched to the bass after some friends and I wanted to put a band together and there was no one to play bass. My father was a well known musician in the area and had a band called the 'Dukes of Rhythm' and the bass player had an old bass he wasn't using and gave it to me. So, that was the start of my musical career.

Some of this music has been used in film, games and played on NPR. The song Scout featured here attained #1 status over all songs on Soundclick.