Word: cinelu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...band, led by percussionists Mino Cinelu and Marvin Smith, ascended the stage one by one and began to play their instruments to build the sound, as in Stop Making Sense, until Sting himself took the stage for an extended mix of "The Lazarus Heart/Too Much Information...
Smith and Cinelu anchor a dynamic rhythm section which literally picks up the band and moves it along. But Cinelu is a born show-stopper. He not only played over a dozen percussion instruments, but he warmed up the crowd with a conga solo, and gave a virtuoso performance on the udu, an instrument which resembles a jar. Keyboardist Delmar Brown complements Kirkland's jazz piano with a funky Caribbean sound. Campbell was simply electric, and Marsalis was, well, just Marsalis, which means excellent...
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