Release Date: 30 June 2014
Label: Cadillac Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 5020675971325
Genres: Jazz  Avant-garde  
Release Date: 30 June 2014
Label: Cadillac Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 5020675971325
Genres: Jazz  Avant-garde  
Description
This first release in Cadillac's '40th Anniversary Series' brings together two albums by the great South African bass player Johhny Mbizo Dyani, both originally released by Cadillac on vinyl and never before issued on CD. REJOICE is a trio album with Dyani's compatriot Mongezi Feza and Turkish percussionist Okay Temiz, recorded at the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm in October 1972, during a Swedish tour. Sadly by the time the album was actually released in 1988 only one member of the group remained, Feza having died in 1975 aged 30 and Dyani in 1986 aged 39. Both musicians had left South Africa as members of the Blue Notes group, settling in London never to return to their apartheid homeland. TOGETHER was also recorded in Stockholm, where Dyani was by then living, in Dec 1979 / Jan 1980. The group was put together specially with Dyani's old cohort Dudu Pukwana invited over from London to play. 'The music is very special. Transcending the boundaries of nations and cultures, Mbizo s enthusiasm spread and inspired the sessions with his intense passion. A passion which revelled in a nostalgia for the myths and melodies of Marabi and Kwela. Mbizo s life was music, he gave his life for music. These sessions are Mbizo's own testimony to the spirit of hope for the future, for a better world. It is a statement so filled with vitality and with the joy of rediscovered roots that it will stand as a signpost to the whole of his life and work.' (from the sleevenotes)
Tracklisting
Albert Nicholas
Mike Westbrook
The Crane River Jazz Band
Bobby Wellins Quartet
Evan Parker Quartet
Dudu Pukwana & Bob Stuckey
Mike Osborne Trio, Harry Miller & Tony Levin
Harry Beckett
A Bigger MOUTH
Barry Guy
John Zorn
A.M.E.N
Savina Yannatou, Floros Floridis, Barry Guy & Ramon Lopez
Weird Of Mouth
Paul Dunmall & Kevin Figes
Kevin Figes & Julie Tippetts