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Multiple Reviews

Chris McGregor: Eclipse at Dawn and Very Urgent

by Clifford Allen
June 1, 2008

In the spoken introduction to the latest archival recording from pianist Chris McGregor and the Brotherhood of Breath, emcee Ronnie Scott quips that “South Africa is a wonderful place...to come from." The audience at the 1971 Berlin Jazztage responds with uneasy laughter at Scott's thinly-veiled politics, then cheers as Dudu Pukwana tartly comments with his horn.

Improvised musics, and especially jazz, are itinerant musics borne out of difficult social and political situations, and the audacity of a racially-mixed ...

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Album Review

Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath: Eclipse at Dawn

Read "Eclipse at Dawn" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza
May 12, 2008

The advent of a recording from the Brotherhood of Breath is a time of eager anticipation. The band was always inventive, their music challenging. They rode the winds of free jazz, added the flavor of dance music and enticed with the beat of the kwela. They bring all these elements together once more on this live recording from the Berlin JazzTage festival on November 4, 1971.

The music on the recording is continuous. Yet it does ...