Remembering the Blue Notes: South Africa’s first generation of free jazz
Music is shared love
That’s changing. On September 22, trumpeter Marcus Wyatt launches the debut recording of his Blue Notes Tribute Orkestra in Johannesburg. In a recent interview with me Wyattt declares the work of McGregor, Dyani, Pukwana and the rest as “gold”. “Not many people knew about it, but it’s music people should know.”
His project is just one flower of a slow growing interest in recovering the legacy that seems finally to be breaking into bloom.
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