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Dollar Brand - African Breeze (1974) {2015 DSD Japan East Wind Masters Collection 1000 UCCJ-9132}

Dollar Brand - African Breeze (1974) {2015 DSD Japan East Wind Masters Collection 1000 UCCJ-9132}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 220 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 96 Mb
Full Artwork @ 600 dpi (png) -> 141 Mb | 5% repair rar | DSD Mastering
© 1974, 2015 East Wind Music / Universal Japan | UCCJ-9132
Jazz / Post Bop / International Jazz / Piano

Reissue with the latest DSD remastering. Dollar Brand playing solo – but with a vibrancy that hardly makes you miss the other instruments at all! Most of the record features solo piano, but there's also a bit of bamboo flute as well – leading off the set and establishing this great organic vibe to the whole thing, which is then followed by Brand's long-spun, completely hypnotic lines on piano! The recording quality is wonderful – very clear and strong, and quite resonant too – and the set features two side-long long suites – "Africa" and "Reflection" – with shorter passages that move through the warm range of moods you'd find in Brand's other strong work from the time. Titles include "Ancient Africa", "Msunduza", "Single Petal Of A Rose", and "African Sun".

Dollar Brand - African Space Program (1974) {Enja}  Music

Posted by tiburon at Sept. 16, 2017
Dollar Brand - African Space Program (1974) {Enja}

Dollar Brand - African Space Program (1974) {Enja}
EAC 1.3 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 300dpi | 274MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 115MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Jazz, Post-Bop

Still known as Dollar Brand at the time of this recording, Abdullah Ibrahim had his first encounter with a large ensemble on African Space Program, and the results are quite successful. Despite a muddy sound quality, this is music built on infectious themes and played with verve by a fine cast of instrumentalists. The first part of "Tintiyana," entirely written, is redolent of Ellington and Mingus, all churning low tones and percussion. When the second portion begins, the mood turns celebratory with a striding, gospel-imbued theme supporting heroic solos from all involved. Several of the musicians on hand were generally involved with the avant-garde end of the jazz spectrum at the time, and their playing is full of bite and a risk-taking nature that greatly enlivens the proceedings.
Don Cherry, Carlos Ward, Dollar Brand - Universal Silence (2019/2020)

Don Cherry, Carlos Ward, Dollar Brand - Universal Silence (2019/2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 393 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 182 Mb | 01:19:15
Avant-Garde Jazz | Label: Lepo Glasbo

A beautiful live performance from the same trio that delivered the Third World Underground album for Trio Records in 1972 – a set done with a similar mix of earthy, global elements as that gem – delivered by Carlos Ward on alto and flute, Dollar Brand on piano and flute, and Don Cherry on flute, trumpet, and percussion! There's a style here that's almost an extension of the energy of the Art Ensemble Of Chicago – especially in the way the musicians mix up instruments – combined with some of the more globally-sensitive elements of Don Cherry's work in Sweden, which clearly brings out qualities in Brand and Ward that are different than their already-great work together on other albums. Titles include "African Session", "Air", "Berimbau", "Waya Wa Egoli", "Cherry", and "Bra Joe From Kilimanjaro".
Gato Barbieri & Dollar Brand - Hamba Khale! (1968) [Reissue 2002]

Gato Barbieri & Dollar Brand - Hamba Khale! (1968) [Reissue 2002]
EAC Rip | APE (image+.cue+log) - 175 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 84 MB | Covers (8 MB) included
Genre: Jazz, Free Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Fuel 2000 (302 061 187 2)

Two jazz giants of the 70s come together on this rare Italian recording from the late 60s - South African pianist Dollar Brand (Abdulla Ibrahim) and Argentine tenorist Gato Barbieri - both working here in spare duo formation, with edges that are a fair bit sharper than most of their later work! The format is incredibly spare - just tenor and piano, plus some occasional cello work by Brand - dark and angular, but also filled with small flowers of hope, flowering in the spontaneous presence of these two great minds - a tremendous spirit that makes the record very different than freer jazz outings, and which maybe points the way towards some of the classic European tenor/piano recordings to come.
Abdullah Ibrahim (Dollar Brand) - The Pilgrim [Recorded 1973-1979] (1986) (Repost)

Abdullah Ibrahim (Dollar Brand) - The Pilgrim [Recorded 1973-1979] (1986)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 269 MB | Covers included
Genre: Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Enja (CD 2048-06)

Recorded at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg, on 10.12.1973, except (4), (5) which were recorded on 7.9.1979.
South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim's effervescent sound is immediately recognizable. It is steeped in the folk traditions of his homeland - from township folk and A.M.E. gospel to Indian raga - and is wed to the elegant compositional flair of Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk's canny notions of harmony and rhythm, improvisation, and classical technical proficiency. He is the most distinguished - and prolific - jazzman in South Africa's history.

Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim) - African Marketplace (1980)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Aug. 30, 2017
Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim) - African Marketplace (1980)

Dollar Brand - African Marketplace (1980)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 00:35:55 | 170 Mb
Jazz, Post-Bop, Folk | Label: Elektra, Discovery Records

This is one of Abdullah Ibrahim's most colorful band recordings. With a 12-piece group that includes altoist Carlos Ward, trombonist Craig Harris and bassist Cecil McBee along with some lesser-known names, Ibrahim performs eight folklike originals that pay tribute to his life growing up in South Africa. "The Homecoming Song," "Anthem for the New Nation" and especially "The Wedding" (a beautiful hymn) are particularly memorable.

Abdullah Ibrahim - African Piano (1969) {ECM JAPO 60002}  Music

Posted by tiburon at May 10, 2023
Abdullah Ibrahim - African Piano (1969) {ECM JAPO 60002}

Abdullah Ibrahim - African Piano (1969) {ECM JAPO 60002}
EAC 1.0b3 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 300dpi | 216MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 98MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: African Jazz, Post-Bop, World Fusion

Sometimes a musical message is so urgent that questions of recording quality are almost beside the point. Informally recorded in 1969 in a noisy club – Copenhagen’s famous Jazzhus Montmartre – the flavour of this album is ‘documentary’ rather than luxuriantly hi-fidelity, yet the essence of Abdullah Ibrahim’s communication comes through loud and clear. The listener is drawn into the robust rhythms of his solo piano style, as he re-examines the history of jazz from a South African perspective, with echoes of songs of the townships, and vamps that hint of Monk and Duke and much more. African Piano was a highly influential album, and it has lost none of its power.As part of the Re:solutions series this historical title has been mastered from original analog sources and reissued in January 2014.

Dollar Brand - Anatomy Of A South African Village (1965/1999)  Music

Posted by Domestos at March 21, 2018
Dollar Brand - Anatomy Of A South African Village (1965/1999)

Dollar Brand - Anatomy Of A South African Village (1965/1999)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) ~ 247.62 Mb | 47:53 | Cover
Post Bop, Cape Jazz | Country: South Africa | Label: Da Music; Jazz Colours - 874743-2

Abdullah Ibrahim (born Adolph Johannes Brand on 9 October 1934 and formerly known as Dollar Brand) is a South African pianist and composer. His music reflects many of the musical influences of his childhood in the multicultural port areas of Cape Town, ranging from traditional African songs to the gospel of the AME Church and ragas, to more modern jazz and other Western styles. Ibrahim is considered the leading figure in the subgenre of Cape jazz. Within jazz, his music particularly reflects the influence of Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington. He is known especially for "Mannenberg", a jazz piece that became a notable anti-apartheid anthem.

Dollar Brand - Round Midnight At The Montmartre (1988)  Music

Posted by v3122 at Jan. 29, 2019
Dollar Brand - Round Midnight At The Montmartre (1988)

Dollar Brand - Round Midnight At The Montmartre (1988)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Black Lion Records, BLCD 760111 | ~ 275 or 118 Mb | Artwork(jpg) -> 36 Mb
Post-Bop, African Jazz

~ Recorded at the Montmartre Jazzhus, Copenhagen, 30th January 1965, by courtesy of Herluf Kamp Larsen ~

Dollar Brand - Good News from Africa (1973) {Enja}  Music

Posted by tiburon at March 19, 2018
Dollar Brand - Good News from Africa (1973) {Enja}

Dollar Brand - Good News from Africa (1973) {Enja}
EAC 1.3 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3u | Full Scans 300dpi | 221MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 102MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Ethnic Jazz

The extraordinary South African pianist meets his countryman, the late, very great bassist Johnny Dyani, and the result is one of the single most beautiful recordings of the '70s. The duo mix in traditional African and Islamic songs and perform with a fervor and depth of feeling rarely heard in or outside of jazz. From the opening traditional Xhosa song, "Ntsikana's Bell," the rich, sonorous approach of these two musicians is evident, both singing in stirring fashion, Ibrahim guttural and serious, Dyani as free and light as a swallow. Ibrahim treats the listener to some of his all-too-rarely heard flute work on the following track, using Kirk-ian techniques of sung overtones in a gorgeous original.