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2010-06-14
Strut Records concludes a three-CD set of early South African music by highlighting that country's jazz musicians of the '60s, '70s and '80s. While many prominent artists fled South Africa for the safer and richer shores of the U.S. and Europe, these musicians stayed and kept jazz alive. Some interesting stuff here -- you can hear the roots of what Hugh Masekela wound up doing with "Grazin' in the Grass" in 1968. The Malombo cuts are the ones that fuse jazz and African rhythms the most extensively. That these artists could play so skillfully during a time of great repression is amazing. Such is the power of music. 06/10 Michael J.
STEVE SWALLOW with ROBERT CREELY
So There
CHICK COREA & GARY BURTON
The New Crystal Silence
ANGELO MICHAJLOV (Performed by Petra Cernocka and The Karl Vlach Orchestra)
Saxana
Ivo Antognini Jazz Project
Feggari Mou
Jeff Coffin & Charlie Peacock
Arc of The Circle
MILES DAVIS
Evolution of the Groove
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