Seattle Jazz Scene

By ROSS SIMONINI
SPECIAL TO THE P-I

Within the first few songs of the sold-out Malian music double bill, Vieux Farka Touré called a Town Hall audience out of the pews and onto the dance floor. When the floor became full, dancers clogged the aisles.

The son of legendary Ali Farka Touré, Vieux opened the show Wednesday with a set of West African jam-rock. His songs, like his father’s, are vehicles for the counterpoint between his lyrical electric guitar playing and his wailing Mississippi Delta blues vocalizations.

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