He's continued to mix it up ever sinceprominent genre-benders he's worked with include Miroslav Vitous, Trilok Gurtu, David Liebman, Paul McCandless, Peter Erskine and Mino Cinelu. Le started out down the cultural miscenegation road with his first band, the multi-ethnic Ultramarine, whose 1989 album, De, was named World Music Album of the Year by the radical French newspaper Liberation.
Some, like French-Vietnamese guitarist Nguyen Le, are so polyglot as to be practically beyond category. We're all postmodernists now, and many musicians under fifty reflect a range of influences beyond those traditionally associated with their own core style. Where does jazz stop and world music start? The boundaries are getting more blurred by the minute.
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