Results for "Plunky Nkabinde"

Plunky Nkabinde

Message From Mozambique

By Plunky Nkabinde

Label: Strut Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Struggle (Home); Soledad Brothers; Freedom Fighter; Make Your Own Revolution Now; Father Is Back; Nairobi / Chants.

JuJu: Message From Mozambique

by Chris May
March 17, 2023

There are many historic albums among the fifty or so titles released by the Strata-East label in the 1970s. But few have acquired the quasi-mythological stature of 1973's politically charged spiritual-jazz masterpiece Message From Mozambique by Bay Area tenor saxophonist Plunk Nkabinde and his band JuJu. The only disc to come close is Gil Scott-Heron and ...

Strata-East: Seizing the Time

by Chris May
April 19, 2020

Operating on minimum finance and maximum passion, Brooklyn's Strata-East label was a pivotal platform for the spiritual-jazz movement that emerged during the Civil Rights struggle of the 1970s. Its closest contemporary comparator was Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. Both were non-profit organisations. The AACM was non-profit by design. With Strata-East, co-founder Charles Tolliver ...