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PRICE:
$24.00
$24.00
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ARTIST
MRWEBI, GWIGWI
TITLE
Mbaqanga Songs
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
HONEST JON''S RECORDS
CATALOG #
HJR 103LP
HJR 103LP
GENRE
WORLD
RELEASE DATE
8/16/2024
2024 repress. Beautiful, insurgent, fabulously danceable jazz music from South Africa, flowing out of the penny-whistle kwela bands of the 1950s. (Kwela means "get moving," in Xhosa.)
Bra Gwigwi
played alto and clarinet alongside
Hugh Masekela
and
Kippie Moeketsi
in
The Jazz Dazzlers
,
The Jazz Maniacs
, and
The Harlem Swingsters
. He came to the UK from Johannesburg as an actor and clarinetist in
King Kong
-- a musical about a Zulu boxer -- which opened in London in February 1961. Recorded in January 1967, at
Dennis Duerden
's Transcription Centre, he is joined here by
Dudu Pukwana
,
Chris McGregor
,
Laurie Allan
, and
Ronnie Beer
, all from
The Blue Notes
. Ladbroke Grove legend, and mainstay of the
London Is The Place For Me
series,
Coleridge Goode
plays double bass. No less than sixteen shots of jubilant, jump-up mbaqanga. Check the Ethiopian vibe of "Mra" (which became core repertoire of
The Brotherhood of Breath
). Listen to "Nyusamkhaya," and try to get it out of your head. Impossible. Lovely notes by
Steve Beresford
, too.
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