Every Friday night is African Jazz Night. Experience some of the greatest artists of this captivating genre! Tonight we present Source with Abdoulaye Diabate.

SOURCE w/Abdoulaye Diabaté was created by Quebecois flutist Sylvain Leroux, pioneer of African music collaborations, as an improvisational group with a standard formation of bass, drums, keyboard and wind, but was soon reborn as an explorative African Jazz unit with the advent of Malian vocalist Abdoulaye "Djoss" Diabate. The current configuration includes a solid rhythm section held down by Senegalese bassist Mamadou Ba, American drummer, Sean Dixon, and Japanese keyboardist Emi Yabuno. The Master musician from Niger, guitarist Abdoulaye Alhassane, recently joined the band.

Singer Abdoulaye Diabate's voice soars with the depth and conviction conferred upon him by his legacy as a traditional Mande griot and his own infectious good nature. SOURCE W/ ABDOULAYE DIABATE delivers a message of human spirit, of individual and collective creativity, demonstrating how different cultures can meet and communicate through their personal relationship to music.