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ERROL DYERS:
LANGERY
JZZ_33
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Another very popular tune, goes down extremely well with audiences -- uppish-tempo Goema in G Major from this respected Cape Jazz composer, which once it gets going seems to be over much to quickly. Lead voice scored for 1st Alto/Tpt/Tbn but could really be played by anybody, originally a guitar line (in E). Solos open, with soli sections in brass & saxes. Intermediary level, not technically difficult at all, but timing a bit tricky at tempo. "Langery" means "long row" and refers to a row of similar houses in the street where Errol Dyers lives. Errol is credited together with Robbie Jansen and Basil Coetzee with bringing the cape carnival or 'goema' sound of the street bands into the mainstream of Cape Jazz during the 'struggle' years when a lot of musicians went into exile, and it was left to the mainstays to develop the music at home.

ZACKS NKOSI:
JACKPOT
JZZ_43
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A gentle marabi gem by the master of this genre. Some controversy arose over this tune composed & recorded by Zakes Nkosi in 1960. In 1974 Dollar Brand recorded his very popular 'Manenberg' with Basil Coetzee, after returning from overseas and spending time in Johannesburg among the local black jazz musicians. Some musicians were convinced that Brand's Manenberg is just a slowed down version of Jackpot, and indeed the theme is very similar. This arrangement is based on the original 1960 recording, ideally performed with a sedate groove more like that of the original Manenberg recording, however this is up to the rhythm section to decide. Could be performed entirely 'straight' or, like often is the case with marabi, with the horns swinging ever so slightly over a straight groove.

DUDU PUKWANA:
MRA
JZZ_34
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Written for Christopher Columbus 'Mra' Ngcukana, father of some of Cape Town's jazz stalwarts, Ezra and Duke, this is a 'war song' or 'mzabalazo', some say it contains some of Mra's own riffs. This arrangement is basically a more structured version (and then for full bigband) of the one recorded by Chris McGregor's 'Brotherhood of Breath' on the live album 'Travelling Somewhere'. Featured on that recording are some of the original Blue Notes who went into exile with McGregor in the early 1960's including Pukwana on alto sax, Mongezi Feza on trumpet and Louis Moholo on drums. 'Mra' is short for the South Africanism 'My Bra' which in turn is a hip version of 'My Brother'.

ALAN SILINGA:
NTYILO NTYILO
JZZ_37
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'Ntyilo Ntyilo' (Xhosa: Little Bird) is a true South African classic, one a small group of 'evergreens' that any local artist with jazz pretensions must include in their repertoire. It was written by Alan Silinga expressly for Miriam Makeba who first recorded it with the Manhattan Brothers in 1954. Miriam's solo rendition on her first American album in 1960 put it on the world map and since that time many other versions have been cut by artists as diverse as Hugh Masekela, Pharoah Sanders and on this CD, Dolly Rathebe. As for the song's meaning, composer Silinga can only say that it is about a bird singing sweetly and inviting the listener to "that happier place" called heaven.

This arrangement by Prof. Mike Campbell, head of jazz at University of Cape Town.

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