Results for "Buddy Wells"

Buddy Wells

Turbulence And Pulse

By Asher Gamedze

Label: International Anthem / Mushroom Hour
Released: 2023
Track listing: Turbulence's Pulse; Wynter Time; Locomotion; If It Rains To Pursue The Truth; Melancholia; Alibama; Can't See The Sun; Sometimes I Think Of Myself; Out Stepped Zim; Underground Formation; Melancholia (Live In Cairo); If It Rains To Pursue The Sun (Live In Cairo); Out Stepped Zim (Live In Cairo).

Asher Gamedze: Turbulence And Pulse

by Chris May
May 24, 2023

South African drummer Asher Gamedze's Turbulence And Pulse is a magnificent, gutsy, stirring piece of work, authentic to its core. It resonates, almost without mediation, with Black American jazz as played by bands led by Charles Mingus and Art Blakey circa 1960. And therein lies a story, for Black South African jazz has seen its compass ...

Finish The Sun

By Shane Cooper

Label: Dox Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Finish The Sun; Where The Heart Is; Umshana; Spirit Animal; Kucheza; Joburg Poem; Flow; The Walk;

Shane Cooper & Mabuta: Finish The Sun

by Dan Bilawsky
June 7, 2022

On Mabuta's debut—Welcome To This World (Afrosynth Records, 2018)—South African bassist, electronic musician and composer Shane Cooper introduced ears to a leading-edge ensemble intent on delivering trippy, dance-friendly designs. Now, with this second album, he doubles down on that core concept, delivering a heap of hip groovers which draw strength from Pan-African influences and ride high ...

South African Saliency: Reza Khota, Carlo Mombelli, Andrew Lilley, and Mandisi Dyantyis

by Dan Bilawsky
February 20, 2019

As sure as the sun will shine on Chapman's Peak and the winds will sweep over Table Mountain, South Africa will continue to flourish and birth new music worthy of worldwide attention. The West may typically pay little to no mind to South African jazz and the artists who shape it, but that has yet to ...

Mabuta: Welcome To This World

by Dan Bilawsky
July 10, 2018

If the eyes are the windows to the soul and a portal opening to reality and closing on dreams, then the eyelids can be seen as the gatekeepers to such worlds. Mabuta--a genre-merging band taking its name from the Japanese word for eyelid--has a keen understanding of that concept. Shane Cooper, the mastermind behind this group, ...