DUDU PUKWANA spiritual jazz LP “In The Townships” on CAROLINE orig UK ’73 NM

$

49

Artist:   DUDU PUKWANA & SPEAR

Title:   “In the Townships”

Label:   CAROLINE RECORDS (London, U.K.) ~ C 1504.   Stereo pressing on medium weight vinyl.  Label is white with black text. 

Matrix numbers are -1U on both sides.

Year:  1973

Personnel:

Dudu Pukwana – alto, piano, congas, percussion, vocals, arranger

Mongezi Feza – trumpet, congas, percussion, vocals

Bizo Mngqikana – tenor, percussion, vocals

Louis Moholo – drums, percussion

Harry Miller – bass, bass guitar.

Condition: 

DISC:  NEAR MINT with 100% of original gloss, as clean as can be found.  Appears to have been played one or two times at most, and handled with care.  Labels are clean.  Fidelity is superb.  A gorgeous disc you will never need to upgrade.

JACKET:   Jacket is VG+ with no major issues.   Front and reverse panels have some ring and surface wear.  Seams and corners have wear and rubbing.  No splits, writing or stickers.  Overall a very presentable jacket to accompany the nice sounding disc.

Track Listing: 

Side One:

• Baloyi
• Ezilalini
• Zakude

Side Two:

• Sonia
• Angel Nemali
• Nobomvu
• Sekela Khuluma

Review:

“This glorious, ferocious recording is one of the pinnacles of the music created by the South African expatriates who settled in England in the '60s and melded with the free jazz community therein.  Leader and alto saxophonist Dudu Pukwana and trumpeter Mongezi Feza were twin fountainheads of this movement and are in rare form here, both instrumentally and as composers.  The pieces here are largely riff-based, but what incredibly infectious and funky riffs these are.  South African music emphasized the importance of various thematic materials by how often it was repeated in a song, and these guys iterate the melodies with a vengeance.  Happily, these melodies are so utterly catchy that one can wallow in them for hours, listening with giddy enjoyment as these musicians overlay and embroider them with uproarious playing, not to mention the frequent vocal exhortations and cries.  Pukwana's alto has an altogether human quality, by turns heart-rending and exultant, while Feza (one of the greatest trumpeters that virtually no one has heard) has a silvery, irrepressibly witty aspect to his work that sneaks up and kills when least expected.  Anchored by the incendiary rhythm team of Harry Miller and Louis Moholo, this is a band that just doesn't stop, going from one pounding, dancing song to the next, never pausing for breath, as though playing nonstop during a 72-hour township festival.  Along with Moholo’s Spirits Rejoice! on Ogun, that all-too-brief moment where musicians feeling the racist restrictions of South Africa found a welcome home and fertile creative soil in England is nowhere better represented.  Highly recommended.” 

(courtesy Brian Olewnick, allmusic.com.)

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