Diamond Express
Context
Title track of the album recorded in autumn 1975 at Island Studios in London and released in 1977 by Arista/Freedom. The record is dedicated to trumpeter Mongezi Feza, who was present at the session and died shortly afterward.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Afrobeat, makossa, highlife-jazz, South African jazz, Free jazz. Among the origins and influences of Afrobeat, makossa, highlife-jazz: Soul jazz, boogaloo, Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk.