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01. Tete Mbambisa - Umthsakazi (The Bride)
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02. Tete Mbambisa - Stay Cool
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03. Tete Mbambisa - Black Hero's
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04. Tete Mbambisa - Dembese (dedicated to Cyril McGabane)
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05. Tete Mbambisa - Unity
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ARTIST
MBAMBISA, TETE
TITLE
Tete's Big Sound
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
MAD ABOUT RECORDS
CATALOG #
MAR 050LP
MAR 050LP
GENRE
JAZZ
RELEASE DATE
12/24/2021
2023 repress. Mad About Records present a reissue of
Tete Mbambisa
's
Tete's Big Sound
, originally released in 1976. South African jazz holy grail. Tete Mbambisa has performed and recorded with many of the giants of South African Jazz (
Bazil "Manenberg" Coetzee
,
Johnny Dyani
,
Dick Khoza
,
Duku Makasi
,
Gideon Nxumalo
,
Dudu Pukwana
, etc...), and is one of the very few South African jazz musicians that can claim to have played with the three jazz generations of the last fifty years. His work as a pianist, vocalist, composer and arranger is a landmark on South African jazz history. After a recording hiatus, Mbambisa returned in 1974 with an octet album,
Tete's Big Sound
released on a newly formed label, As Shams (or "The Sun"), established by South African record store owner and independent producer
Rashid Vally
.
Tete's Big Sound
included tracks like "Unity" and the "Black Heroes Lamentation", now considered a classic in the South African jazz underground. The sound that Mbambisa carved in this period was wholly acoustic, and is a style that now is often loosely labelled spiritual jazz, a sound that alludes to deep African textures and rhythms balanced with clear nods to American hard bop and modal jazz, sometimes edging toward free improvisation in echoes of
John Coltrane
and
Pharaoh Sanders
. 180 gram vinyl; deluxe hard-cardboard sleeve with OBI and resealable outer sleeve.
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