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FRIENDS, Part Four
| Paul Bowles was interested in various types of traditional Moroccan music including Jilala, Gnawa and Jajouka. Here Bowles is shown with his friends Cherie Nutting and Bachir Attar, the hereditary leader of the Master Musicians of Jajouka, during the 1989 recording sessions in the Kasbah, with The Rolling Stones (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ron Wood) in Tangier, Morocco. Other photos on this page are of the poet and singer Patti Smith, the artist Lawrence Mynott, who painted a portrait of Bowles, and Philip Krone from Chicago, who visited Bowles during his many trips to Morocco. |
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Paul Bowles and Barbara Nutting greet the Master Musicians of Jajouka. Bachir Attar, the leader of the group, stands at the center.) |
In June 1989, The Rolling Stones recorded with The Master Musicians of Jajouka at le Palais Ben Abbou, in Tangier's ancient kasbah. It was a special event that had Tangier buzzing and paparazzi swarming to make photographs. Shown here are, left to right: Kenneth Lisenbee, Barbara Nutting, Paul Bowles and Cherie Nutting. |
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Mick Jagger with Bachir Attar, the leader of The Master Musicians of Jajouka, Palais Ben Abbou, Tangier, Morocco, 1989
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Mick Jagger and Bachir Attar, the hereditary leader of the famous Sufi trance-like world music group The Master Musicians of Jajouka, during a break in one of the three-day recording sessions held at the Palais ben Abbou in the kasbah, Tangier, 1989. The Master Musicians of Jajouka and Bachir Attar, in addition to recording with The Rolling Stones for the song "Continental Drift on the Stones' Steel Wheels album, were also simultaneously filmed for a BBC Television production of "Rhythms of the World", entitled
The Rolling Stones in Morocco. The Rolling Stones later granted the rights to Bachir Attar and The Master Musicians of Jajouka to re-release the 1968 Brian Jones recording Brian Jones Presents The Pipes of Pan at Jajouka, which The Rolling Stones own the copyright for. Another internationally-known musical talent who was inspired by Paul Bowles' most famous novel The Sheltering Sky and Bowles' other literary works is the singer and actor Sting, whose 1983 album Synchronicity includes a song track called "Tea in the Sahara", the lyrics of which contain the phrase "beneath the sheltering sky". "Tea in the Sahara" is also the name of the first section of Paul Bowles' first novel The Sheltering Sky, now a classic book in literature. |
Barbara Nutting and Paul Bowles listen and observe, while Mick Jagger sings and performs during one of the three days of recording sessions with Bachir Attar, the leader of The Master Musicians of Jajouka in Tangier in 1989. |
| Ron Wood |
Ron Wood in Tangier, during The Rolling Stones' 1989 Tangier recording sessions, Palais Ben Abbou, kasbah. (Photograph copyright © 1989 by Cherie Nutting). |
| Ron Wood and Keith Richards |
| Ron Wood and Keith Richards take a break during the recordings. Tangier, 1989. (Photograph is Copyright © 1989, Cherie Nutting (Any reproduction and use without written permission is prohibited.) |
| Bachir Attar |
| Bachir Attar visits Paul Bowles in Tangier, Morocco, during a winter day in 1991. Here they wear traditional Moroccan jellabas. Paul Bowles and Brion Gysin first heard the ancient music of the Master Musicians of Jajouka when they attended a moussem near Sidi Kacem, held at a beach on the Atlantic not far from Tangier. Gysin was a painter and writer and had moved from Paris to Tangier in July 1950, He became fascinated and almost obsessed with this music. Gysin learned from his friend the painter Mohamed Hamri, that the music originated from the tiny Moroccan village of Jajouka, several kilometers west of Ksar-el-Kebir in northern Morocco, and Gysin eagerly travelled there with Hamri. Brion Gysin also introduced this legendary Sufi trance music to his friend Brian Jones, lead guitarist and the founder of The Rolling Stones group, who later recorded an LP album in Jajouka in the summer of 1968. Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan At Joujouka was released in 1971, after Jones's untimely death. In 1995, The Rolling Stones granted the rights to Bachir Attar and The Master Musicians of Jajouka to re-release the original 1968 Brian Jones recording on CD as Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan at Jajouka. (Gysin originally spelled the name of the village and musicians as "Joujouka", as did William Burroughs at first, perhaps because Gysin's illiterate partner Mohamed Hamri had called it "Joujouka", however they both later used the preferred spelling of Jajouka.) Contrary to some misinformation on the Web, Paul Bowles did not record any music or musicians from Jajouka as part of what later became The Paul Bowles Music Collection at The Library of Congress. Bowles made those recordings at various times and places in Morocco between 1959 and 1962, not in the late 1940s. Paul Bowles did not immortalize Mohamed Hamri in The Spider's House; however, Brion Gysin did write about him in his novel The Process. (Photograph Copyright © 1991 by Cherie Nutting. Reproduction and use without advance written permission is prohibited) |
| Patti Smith |
Poet and singer Patti Smith and Paul Bowles were photographed in June 1997 by Tim Richmond for the German edition of Voguemagazine. |
| Lawrence Mynott |
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The British artist and illustrator Lawrence Mynott, in the photo at the left, contemplating his portrait of the Hon. David Herbert, New York 1997. Lawrence with his wife, Anthea Pender-Mynott, and the composer and writer Phillip Ramey, Tangier, 1995.
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Paul Bowles stands beside the portrait painted by Lawrence Mynott. Tangier, 1991 | Paul Bowles and Lawrence Mynott, Tangier, 1991 |
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A photograph of Paul Bowles by the British portrait painter and illustrator Lawrence Mynott. (Copyright © 1991, by Lawrence Mynott) See the official Lawrence Mynott site for further information on his work. |
| Philip Krone |
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| Philip Krone is a Chicago-based international real estate and political consultant specializing in historic preservation issues. In early 1996, he arrived in Tangier with his wife Joan and son James. Subsequently, he regularly visited Morocco, and became a valued friend of Paul Bowles and others in Tangier, Morocco. |
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