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Africa Straight Ahead
Label: Heads Up International
Released: 2004
Track listing: Owed To Bishop
Various Artists: Africa Straight Ahead
by AAJ Staff
Africa Straight Ahead is the latest curve ball tossed by Heads Up since label head Dave Love visited Cape Town in 1998 and fell in love with South African jazz. Normally devoted to jazz on the softer side, the label's Africa Series put out two volumes of Smooth Africa in 2000 and 2003. Tapping ...
Various Artists: Africa Straight Ahead
by C. Michael Bailey
Heads Up Records continues its Africa Series with Africa Straight Ahead, a collection of reasonably mainstream jazz offerings by prominent South African jazz musicians. Listening to this collection conjures a couple of observations. First, jazz long ago became a universal language, assimilating the cultural characteristics of those composing and performing the music. Second, while not veering ...