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Kalamazoo 2

Label: Sheer Sound
Released: 2005
Track listing: Gauteng Vibe; Mirror Never Lies; Remember Cato Manor; Do the Right Thing; Under the Tree Near the River; Durbs to Gauteng; What's Your Name Girl; Kort Street Bump Jive; Kalamazoo 2.

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Who's Got the Map?

Label: Sheer Sound
Released: 2005
Track listing: Pedal Point; Sydney's Etude; Dream Walker; Rwanda; Umunyu; South Central; Mr. Harris; Flat No. 22; Pillar to Post; Sydney's Etude 2.

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My Bass

Label: Sheer Sound
Released: 2005
Track listing: Just Like Cape Town; Noluthando; Tembani; Talk to Me; Blue Bass; Bass Funtasie; Eyabahlonishwa; African Union; Intro - Lonely House; Lonely House; Bass Talk; Latin Love; He's the Greatest; Sebenza Always (Qukula Zasha); Power of Love.

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African Sunrise

Label: Sheer Sound
Released: 2005
Track listing: Straight Home; Phambili; A Whisper; African Sunrise; Peacocks Today, Feather Dusters Tomorrow; Song for a Friend; Welcome Home; Song for Johnny Dyani; Limpopo Jive; Mamaye; Nikiwe.

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San Song

Label: Sheer Sound
Released: 2005
Track listing: San Song (Ngqawana); Migrant Workers (Ngqawana); Elgester (Solberg); 43. Casablanca (Solberg); Cape Point (Solberg);

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Sipho Gumede: African Sunrise

Read "African Sunrise" reviewed by Seton Hawkins


Listening to the hauntingly beautiful African Sunrise, released several months after Sipho Gumede's death, one can understand why Gumede is held up as one of South Africa's great musicians. His fat, warm bass sound, his compositional gifts, his genre-defying musical creativity, and his skills as a band leader are all in full bloom here.The ...

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Musa Manzini: My Bass

Read "My Bass" reviewed by Seton Hawkins


My Bass, Musa Manzini's third solo outing, is an album by a bassist, for bassists. Manzini is not afraid to wear his influences on his sleeve--the solo bass overdubbing and slapping of Victor Wooten, the genre-hopping creativity of Gito Baloi, and much more can all be heard here. However, Manzini very much has his own voice. ...

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Andile Yenana: Who's Got the Map?

Read "Who's Got the Map?" reviewed by AAJ Staff


South African pianist Andile Yenana first attracted attention as a sideman on Zim Ngqawana's early recordings, where his McCoy Tyner-ish playing served as a perfect complement to Ngqawana's Coltrane-like energy. In 2002 Sheer Sound released his debut, We Used to Dance, which drew upon these themes. But it would be a mistake to categorize Yenana as ...

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Andile Yenana: Who's Got the Map?

Read "Who's Got the Map?" reviewed by Seton Hawkins


The odd title of pianist Andile Yenana's second album as a leader, as he writes, “depicts the space I am in--call it my voice, expression, interpretation of a reality transformed into compositions." While that's a mouthful, the album succeeds in this respect. A disheartening trend in some South African jazz is a common desire ...

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Kalamazoo: Kalamazoo 2

Read "Kalamazoo 2" reviewed by Seton Hawkins


Kalamazoo 2 is the second of four collaborations between the late bassist Sipho Gumede and multi-instrumentalist Pops Mohamed. Recorded in 1999, it features guest musicians Prince Kupi on guitar, Xoli Nkosi on keyboards and brass, and both Barney Rachabane and Mandla Masuku on alto saxophone.The album opens promisingly--a funky bass-and-keyboard-driven riff along with Mohamed's ...


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