Kenneth Terroade

Selwyn Lissack: Friendship Next of Kin

by Terrell Kent Holmes
February 28, 2007

South African drummer Selwyn Lissack returned to the New York jazz scene for the first time in over thirty years this past December, playing a one-nighter at the Stone to celebrate the reissue of Friendship Next of Kin (1969), his only album as a leader--and an underground classic. Friendship is an example of the evolving musical exploration of the era; each tune on the original album took up an entire side and defined a kind of free ...