Results for "Africa Straight Ahead"

Africa Straight Ahead

Label: Casual Records
Released: 2004

Africa Straight Ahead

By Various Artists

Label: Heads Up International
Released: 2004
Track listing: Owed To Bishop

Various Artists: Africa Straight Ahead

by AAJ Staff
February 6, 2004

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
January 18, 2004

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 ...