Yonn-Dé is an album by David Murray

David Murray (jazz musician)

David Murray is an American jazz musician. Murray plays mainly tenor saxophone and sometimes bass clarinet. He has recorded prolifically for many record labels since the mid-1970s.-Biography:...

 released on the Justin Time label. Recorded in 2001 and released in 2003 the album features performances by Murray and the Gwo-Ka

Gwo ka

Gwo ka is both a family of hand drums and the music created with them, which is a major part of Guadeloupean folk music. There are seven rhythms in gwo ka, which are embellished by the drummers...

 Masters. It was Murray's first album with the Gwo-Ka Masters and was followed by Gwotet

Gwotet

Gwotet is an album by David Murray released on the Justin Time label. Recorded in 2003 and released in 2004 the album features performances by Murray and the Gwo-Ka Masters with Pharoah Sanders...

(2005).

Reception

The Allmusic review by David R. Adler awarded the album 4 stars stating "It is Santi Debriano who proves to be the beating heart of the entire project, lending harmonic shape and direction and making every track a unique journey.".

Track listing

1. "TWA Jou San Manjé" - 11:21
2. "Youyou" - 11:02
3. "On Jou Maten" - 10:04
4. "Onomatopée (Boula Djèl)" - 4:47
5. "Nwèl 'O!" - 4:40
6. "Yonn-Dé" - 9:56
7. "La Pli La" - 9:28
8. "Moman Colombo" - 9:01

All compositions by Guy Konket

• Recorded January 10-February 15, 2001

Personnel

• David Murray
  David Murray (jazz musician)
  David Murray is an American jazz musician. Murray plays mainly tenor saxophone and sometimes bass clarinet. He has recorded prolifically for many record labels since the mid-1970s.-Biography:...
  
   - tenor saxophone, bass clarinet
• Pheeroan AkLaff
  Pheeroan akLaff
  Pheeroan akLaff is an American jazz drummer. Pheeroan akLaff began playing in his hometown of Detroit, and Ann Arbor, Michigan with Travis Biggs, Ars Nova, The Ebony Set, The Last Days, and Rod Lumpkin, recorded with Major Lansky. Moved to New Haven, Connecticut and formed DejaVu with Dwight...
  
   - drums
• Santi Debriano
  Santi Debriano
  Santi Wilson Debriano is a jazz bassist.Debriano was raised in Brooklyn, having moved there with his family at age four. He studied composition at Union College in New York, then attended the New England Conservatory of Music and Wesleyan University...
  
   - bass
• Craig Harris
  Craig S. Harris (trombonist)
  Craig S. Harris is a Jazz trombonist and composer who has been a major figure in the jazz avant-garde movement since his stint with Sun Ra in 1976. Subsequently, Harris has worked with such notable jazz artists as Abdullah Ibrahim, David Murray, Lester Bowie, Cecil Taylor, Sam Rivers, Muhal...
  
   - trombone
• Klod Kiavue - gwo ka drums and voice
• Guy Konket - voice
• François Landreseau - gwo ka drums and voice
• Hugh Ragin
  Hugh Ragin
  Hugh Ragin is an American jazz trumpeter.Ragin was raised in Houston and began on trumpet when he was in eighth grade. After playing in the Houston All-City High School Orchestra, which toured the UK, he took his bachelor's in music education at the University of Houston and his master's in trumpet...
  
  - trumpet