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Add to My Profile | More VideosMboya Nicholson has been cheered from Tokyo to Brazil. In his hometown of Edmonton Canada, Nicholson produced tribute concerts to musicians like Fats Waller, Sidney Bechet and Paul Robeson. At the request of the Francis Winspear Centre for Music, Nicholson held a workshop concert on jazz for youngsters. Then, in 1999, at the suggestion of trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, Nicholson went to New Orleans to study with jazz legend Ellis Marsalis at the University of New Orleans (UNO). While pursuing his Masters degree, Nicholson shared the stage with some of music’s greatest soloists, such as saxophonists Wess "WarmDaddy" Anderson and Sonny Fortune, drummers Herlin Riley and Jason Marsalis and travelled the globe, performing internationally. Currently, Nicholson resides in Toronto composing and recording.**************************************************
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Africville is an important part of Canada’s history. Watch these clips. They are about Africville, a former black community in Canada. Basically, tax paying citizens were denied services like garbage pickup, heat and water in an effort to destroy a predominantley black community. It’s stuff I learned at home as a child ’cause we weren’t taught this in school. This is the REAL TRUTH about how Canada treated and still reagrds blacks. There is a basic dismissal of racism against Afro-Canadians in this country. We had slavery starting from the 1620’s and there’s more history like this, but folks who write the books would rather ignore us. It interferes with the image of a "perfect" country. Anyway, here’s more on Africville
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LISTEN TO THE HORROR STORY OF SITTING IN ON A JAM SESSION
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I’m a huge fan of Paulinho Da Viola. Unfortunately, stores in North America rarely have his albums.
