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ARTIST
MRWEBI, GWIGWI
TITLE
Mbaqanga Songs
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
HONEST JON''S RECORDS
CATALOG #
HJR 103LP
HJR 103LP
GENRE
WORLD
RELEASE DATE
10/16/2006
"This is the first release in a sister series to
London Is The Place For Me
. Gwigwi Mrwebi travelled to London from Johannesburg in 1960, to appear in the musical
King Kong
-- alongside the likes of Dorothy Masuka, featured on
London 4
. (Back home earlier that year he'd recorded with Hugh Masekela and Kippie Moeketsi in the Jazz Dazzlers; and earlier he'd played with the Jazz Maniacs and the Harlem Swingsters.) The Blue Notes came after him in 1965, and two years later Chris McGregor, Dudu Pukwana and Ronnie Beer joined Gwigwi for this session at Dennis Duerden's Transcription centre in Covent Garden, together with Jamaican bassist Coleridge Goode (from Joe Harriott's group), and on drums the Welshman Laurie Allan (a Blue Notes regular, who played with Gong in the seventies).
Mbaqanga Songs
is a reissue of the LP which resulted (originally entitled
Kwela by Gwigwi's Band
, and impossible to find pretty much ever since). Sixteen short, exhilarating jazz tracks in the dance style then captivating South Africa ('kwela' means 'get moving' in Xhosa), bursting with beautiful melodies. Carefully remastered at Abbey Road; with poignant new sleevenotes by Steve Beresford."
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