Results for "Allen Kwela"

Allen Kwela

Alex Express

By Winston Mankunku Ngozi

Label: We Are Busy Bodies
Released: 2023
Track listing: Alex Express; Over The Cliff; Gu Gu Lethu; Ever Green; Revelation.

Two Tenors South Africa Style

by Chris May
November 28, 2023

The latest batch of albums from Canada's We Are Busy Bodies label, which specialises in vinyl reissues of South African jazz, spotlights saxophonists Winston Mankunku Ngozi and Mike Makhalemele, separately and together, on three discs originally released in 1975 and 1976. Ngozi and Makhalemele both opted to remain in South Africa during the apartheid era, thus ...

Carlo Mombelli: Angels and Demons

by Seton Hawkins
April 22, 2019

One of music's criminally underrated geniuses, South African electric bassist and composer Carlo Mombelli has carved out a most extraordinary performing and writing career in music. Throughout his four decades as a performer, Mombelli has forged one of the most distinctive electric bass approaches in Jazz, established himself as South Africa's most exceptional composer, and has ...