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Kelebogile retweeted
You keep on getting the order mixed wena. Whiskey made me Dizzy. Brandy a champion.
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Same way he deals with the roots of jazz. Illuminating. I think the discussions with MM will be lit
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No need. In a documentary, Abdullah even plays marabi sounds explaining that they’re originating from Marabastad. I have you covered.
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In 2024 spent a day with AI. From interview to sound check to backstage. From frustrating whats-the-point esoteric conversations, to ill tempered and commanding in sound check (he demanded a PR person leave) to a frail rambling of a tired old man backstage after a 2 hour set.
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Mahalia Jackson sang Come Sunday at Duke Ellington's Sacred Concert series.
AI had a small organising role at the New York concert as part of Ellingtons crew.
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Since about then I had a private but arms length relationship with AI. When I hosted a night time show on Cape Talk he'd listen from Munich Germany and call in. "AI, Munich" he'd sign off. Over a period on Sunday mornings he'd text. "Come Sunday, Mahalia Jackson"
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But musically, Dollar was perfect. A 2016 surprise pop-up concert in the Cape Town
CBD was bliss. Construction stopped. The wind died. Office work halted. And people left their buildings to listen while AI held church.
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Adolf Brand's father died when he was 4. “It is not me. My name is Sentso; my father is
MoSotho.” It was his grandmother, he went on, “who gave me this
identity, so that I could have an easier passage [in life]," he told me.
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I know enough around the mind impact of a lack of identity, the impact of apartheid, a life in exile. How a mental state results in partners, children, friends become victims. For ones hero to be less than perfect. Patriarchy must never excused. But musically Dollar was perfect.
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Abdullah Ibrahim was a difficult man to interview. He spoke in parable. In metaphor. In metaphysics. You could not pin him down. I later found he was a very difficult. Period. The first time I bumped into him walking anonymously on Plein street circa 2003 he literally growled.
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We know that you in the league of Gillespie and Dupree
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June 16 kickstart. This classic by Abdullah fits the bill. He heard the cry of the students of Soweto and felt the grief of the parents and the nation, and responded the best way he knew how: through an upbeat, uptempo beat youtu.be/HhACPRwzIOo?si=i9h8…
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Those were moments in Twitter before X that sparkled with music and mistaken identity and debates about where the capital of SA jazz was
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I love this pic. A backlit Abdullah. Boston, US, 1986.
From the Rashid Lombard JAZZ ROCKS publication from @CTJazzFest
@JimmySmithStan's tweet on law, jazz & wine took me here, @Motloduwa
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Jun 15
Thanks to Sathima Bea Benjamin who persuaded Duke Ellingtonto to listen to him, we have this piece from Duke Ellington presents the Dollar Brand Trio in Paris in honour of his mate at the Jazz Epistles youtu.be/wlm0Hcelxok?si=aHlP… @JimmySmithStan Sathima sacrificed her career for his
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30 Dec 2016
Tsek wena.@JimmySmithStan @Enghumbhini @Motloduwa Feeling sorry for MM. After I put Mannenberg on. What possible comeback from PTA?
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31 Dec 2016
You know we do Mannenberg. Game over? @Enghumbhini @nombonisogasa @Motloduwa @Almostconvinced @JimmySmithStan @chrisvick3 @RaymondSuttner
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