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Omri Ziegele’s Where’s Africa Trio: Can Walk On Sand
by Nic Jones
This could almost be a band “on a hiding to nothing" considering it self-consciously mines the seam of vibrant music first tapped by the likes of Chris McGregor and Harry Miller. Given the fact that it's only a trio, it's inevitable perhaps that the group lacks the sheer sonic impact of McGregor's much larger bands, but ...
John Tchicai at Cafe Oto in London
by John Sharpe
John Tchicai / John Edwards / Tony Marsh Cafe Oto London August 24, 2009Having played with John Coltrane on his groundbreaking Ascension (Impulse, 1965), it was no surprise that Danish reedman John Tchicai attracted a large crowd on one of his infrequent London appearances at Dalston's Cafe Oto.
Bremen to Bridgewater
Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: CD1: Funky Boots March; Kongi's Theme; Now; the Bride; Think of Something; Union Special;
Andromeda; Do It; the Serpent's Kindly Eye; Untitled Original.
CD 2:Sonia; Now; Yes, Please; Restless; Kwhalo; Untitled Original
Bremen to Bridgwater
Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: CD One: Funky Boots March; Kongi
Brotherhood of Breath: Bremen to Bridgwater
by Jerry D'Souza
Back in the times when apartheid was a festering wound in South Africa, several musicians felt the scabrous effects of that putrid policy. Some left their homeland for the opportunity to express their feelings and to expose the instigators of the great divide. Some stayed behind and defied the dictates. Chris McGregor was among the latter, ...
Brotherhood of Breath: Bremen to Bridgewater
by Rex Butters
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath rampaged through the British free jazz scene of the late '60s and early '70s, a loose big band/free orchestra built around a core South African unit that emigrated to London in 1966. They anticipated the African jazz boom of the '80s, and their ability to drop smart big band riffs through ...
Travelling Somewhere
Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Set one: MRA (Pukwana) 12:14); Restless (McGregor) 9:47; Ismite is Might (McGregor) 3:58; Kongi's Theme (Soyinka) 6:44; Set two: Wood Fire (McGregor) 13:41; The Bride (Pukwana) 6:26; Travelling Somewhere (McGregor) 7:21 Set three: Think of Something (Osborne) 9:55; Do It (McGregor) 9:19
Brotherhood of Breath: Travelling Somewhere
by Andrey Henkin
Jazz is, despite unnamed documentaries claiming the contrary, an international art form; A genre that sacrifices egos and politics for a larger purpose. Musicians play together, despite the racial and international conflicts of the time, purely for the experience and joy of creating music. Some of these meetings and collaborations become much more than just sessions. ...
