Tony Allen – The Source
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Tony Allen passed away on April 30th 2020 in Paris, at the age of 79.
Born in Lagos in 1940, Tony Oladipo Allen was a hugely influential musical figure, most notably as the defining rhythmic engine of Fela Kuti’s Africa 70.
In 2017, he released 2 albums via Blue Note, a tribute EP to Art Blakey and […]
Tony Allen – Tribute to Art Blakey (Live)
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Tony Allen’s EP A Tribute to Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers paid homage to the American jazz drummer, who he named as one of his earliest musical influences.
The album was released on Blue Note Records in 2017.
Recorded live in Paris with a seven-piece band, A Tribute to Art Blakey features four of the […]
Dollar Brand – Zimbabwe
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“Zimbabwe” is the name of a composition, on the album of the same name, released by Dollar Brand / Abdullah Ibrahim for Enja Records in 1983.
The track also appears in a shorter live version on “South Africa”, a 25th Anniversary Series album for the Enja Heritage Collection (first released in 1986), that is described […]
Amagoduka – Zim Ngqawana
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The song Amagoduka, by Zim Ngqawana, tells the tale of migrant workers who’ve historically had to leave their homes in the hinterlands for big cities in search of a better day.
Zim Ngqawana (1959-2011)
South African flautist and saxophonist, composer and teacher, Zimasile Ngqawana affectionately known as ‘Zim’ (and later as ‘Zimology’) was born in […]
Nigeria 70
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Originally released in 2001, the first volume of Nigeria 70 was the first compilation of its kind to explore in depth the fertile music scene in Lagos as domestic artists mixed Highlife and traditional rhythms with Soul, Funk, Rock and Jazz. Three further volumes followed, exploring the far corners of original Afrobeat, Juju, Funk and […]
#70smusic #80smusic #AfroFunk #Compilation #FullAlbum #Jazz #JùjúMusic #Nigeria
Vuma Levin’s “In Motion”
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With "In Motion," we explore the meeting point between South African and Western European musical traditions. This album, Allegories, reimagines 16th-century madrigals through the lens of Nguni-Sotho music and Black Atlantic histories—challenging colonial narratives and building a new story—one not bound by domination and submission, but shaped by mutual recognition [...]
Easing into Sunday morning with the new Ezra Collective album.
#NowPlaying #Jazz @jazz
Found an album down the back of the sofa that I'd neglected to download from #Bandcamp. #jazz @jazz
No Nation but Imagination from ALEXANDER HAWKINS with Rhodri Davies, Hamid Drake, Nicole Mitchell, Matthew Wright
https://alexanderhawkinsintakt.bandcamp.com/album/no-nation-but-imagination
@alisynthesis I was putting together a little list of some of my favorite jazz artists for @tootbrute when I remembered an extraordinary jazz-hop act that you should check out for something unlike anything you've ever heard (unless you happened to come across this one before):
One of the most unique records I've had the pleasure of adding to my eclectic collection of musical treasures
@bandcamp @music @hiphop @jazz
#Bandcamp #Music #Indigenous #HipHop #Jazz
Somi – The Lagos Music Salon
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The Lagos Music Salon is the 4th studio full-length album by jazz hybrid singer and songwriter Somi.
It was released in 2014. Somi is an American Jazz and Pop singer and songwriter.
Her music is influenced by her Ugandan and Rwandan roots, and she resides between New York City and Lagos, Nigeria. […]
Ibrahim Khalil Shihab – Spring
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South Africa’s lost jazz history contains many an overlooked classic. But even within that hidden tradition, there are few albums that suffered such an unlucky fate as Spring, the monumental 1968 debut album by pianist Ibrahim Khalil Shihab, formerly Chris Schilder.
Though Shihab was only twenty-two when Spring was recorded, he was already a lynchpin […]
The Jazz Epistles – Verse1
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Verse 1 by the Jazz Epistles in 1960 is “a genuine hard bop session, swinging and persuasive, coming out of South Africa in an era when black musicians weren’t making any recordings, let alone forward-looking modern jazz albums.”
[They] were South Africa’s first important (albeit short-lived) bebop band, inspired by Art Blakey‘s [...]
#60smusic #AbdullahIbrahim #HughMasekela #Jazz #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz
Abdullah Ibrahim – Blues for a Hip King
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Abdullah Ibrahim composed this “Blues for a Hip King” for King Sobhuza II of Swaziland in 1989.
The eponymous album contains recordings gathered from several sessions in 1974, 1976 and 1979 and was first released under his “Dollar Brand” name.
#70smusic #AbdullahIbrahim #Jazz #SouthAfrica #Swaziland #AfroJazz
Hugh Masekela & The Union of South Africa
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Jonas Gwangwa (1937 – 2021) was a genius trombone player from Soweto, South Africa. That’s him in the middle between 2 other South African geniuses, the late Hugh Masekela on the left, and Caiphus Semenya (born 1939), on the right, for their band Union of South Africa. The album, released in May 1971, is an […]
