The The Jazz Epistles

Various Artists - Jazz Meets Africa (2014) {3CD Set Not Now Music NOT3CD162}
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© 2014 Not Now Music | NOT3CD162
Jazz / Ethnic Fusion / Hard Bop / Post Bop / Bop / Free Jazz

Over the decades, many musicians from the African-American ethnic group have turned to Africa for musical inspiration. For some, it was to prove only a partial or brief flirtation, while others embraced the tonal and rhythmic elements the continent’s music had to offer on a more serious basis. We have collected the best of the latter here. The American musicians assembled on this compilation were certainly not the only ones to mine the inspirational qualities of African music in the Fifties and Sixties but these were the principal players who chose to add a little colour and ethnicity to their repertoire.

Adolph Johannes Brand was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1934. He adopted the stage name Dollar Brand for his first few recordings, before changing his name to Abdullah Ibrahim on his conversion to Islam in 1968. The recording dates of both these sets are from that brief period between the burst of South African jazz and when Ibrahim and fellow musicians fled apartheid in 1962.

Jaki Byard - Sunshine of My Soul: Live at the Keystone Korner (1978) {HighNote Records HCD7169 rel 2007}
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© 1978, 2007 HighNote Records, Inc. | HCD 7169
Jazz / Bop / Post Bop / Piano Solo

This High Note Jaki Byard date titled Sunshine of My Soul is not a reissue of the 1967 issue by Prestige. In fact, it was recorded by Todd Barkan in 1978 at the Keystone Korner in San Francisco and produced for release on compact disc by Joe Fields. This is Byard solo, working magic as few other pianists have ever been able to and embodying most of the jazz tradition in his set.