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Alex Express

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
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 ...
Township Jazz: Unlocking The Vaults

by Chris May
Britain is often said to be the first country to have forged a style of jazz distinct from its American parent, during the late 1950s, in part through the influence of London-based players from South Asia. Closer examination of calendars and the historical record, however, shows that South Africa found its own jazz voice at the ...