This is a lovely CD of performances by Abdullah Ibrahim/Dollar Brand and his small group of South African musicians. The producer was Rashid Vally and the recording was made in June 1974 in a studio in Cape Town, "against a backdrop of forced removals as the apartheid government finalised its destruction of District Six and evicted coloured families from homes throughout the city" Abdullah Ibrahim later fled South Africa and lived for several years in the US where he met and worked with Duke Ellington.
Mannenberg - Is Where It's Happening became the anthem of the uprisings in the Soweto township during the anti-apartheid movement in the 1970s.
Mannenberg - Is Where It's Happening
Black And Brown Cheeries
Little Boy
"To appreciate the greatness of the Masters is to keep faith in the greatness of humanity." - Wilhelm Furtwängler
Duke (piano); Lawrence Brown (trombone); Johnny Hodges (alto); Ray Nance (cornet); Paul Gonsalves (tenor); Jimmy Hamilton (clarinet0 and the Ellington Orchestra with Jingle Bells:
Dexter Gordon Quartet: Dexter Gordon on tenor, Kirk Lightsey on piano, David Eubanks on bass, and Eddie Gladden on drums. - "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"
"To appreciate the greatness of the Masters is to keep faith in the greatness of humanity." - Wilhelm Furtwängler