Dollar Brand: Cape Town Fringe (Vinyl LP)
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Abdullah Ibrahim, aka Dollar Brand, is a South African jazz pianist whose revered recordings incorporate both modal jazz and the unique rhythms of his homeland. This album from 1977 sees him in a terrific quintet setting, engaging in loose and spiritual jazz of a very high order.
The towering jazz landmark originally issued in South Africa in 1974 under the title Mannenberg Is Where It’s Happening. Recorded with Basil Coetzee, Robbie Jansen, Monty Weber and Morris Goldberg, the music protested the evictions underway from District Six, whereby ‘coloureds’ were murderously booted out to Mannenberg township (where Coetzee was from). The LP sold by the thousands within weeks, becoming South Africans’ unofficial national anthem.
- Cape Town Fringe
- The Pilgrim