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Neil Gonsalves

Blessings and Blues

By Neil Gonsalves

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: The Calling; The Musician’s Wedding; Midnight Moves; African Time; The Breadmaker’s Blues; Underworlds and Overseas; Let’s Do It Again; Rise and Shine; Southern Migration; Disciples, We; A Dollar For Your Thoughts; Qantani.

Neil Gonsalves Trio: Blessings and Blues

by Dan Bilawsky
August 5, 2021

This third release from South African pianist/composer Neil Gonsalves is a celebration of the motherland, reflection on life at (and beyond) the age of 50 and clear acknowledgement of the bearing and blanketing nature of the blues, used herein as a powerful springboard to discovery. Leading an incredibly capable trio with bassist Ildo ...

Ernest Dawkins' Live in the Spirit Residency Big Band: Memory in the Center, An Afro Opera: Homage to Nelson Mandela

by Hrayr Attarian
October 31, 2015

Perhaps no statesman (or woman), of the second half of the 20th century, personifies struggle for freedom and human rights as much as Nelson Mandela. This is because the late South African president dedicated his long life to ending apartheid and the injustices associated with it. His perseverance crowned by his success resonated globally.