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Hugh Masekela & Hedzoleh Soundz · 1973 · Ouverture, reprise plus tard sur Still Grazing (2004)

Context

Opening track of Introducing Hedzoleh Soundz (Blue Thumb, 1973), recorded in July 1973 at EMI studios in Lagos with the Ghanaian group Hedzoleh Soundz. Masekela covered it in 2004 on Still Grazing.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to South African jazz, Afrobeat, makossa, highlife-jazz. Among the origins and influences of South African jazz: Free jazz, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).

By the same artist

• Kaa Ye Oya (1973)
• Adade (1973)
• When (1973)
• Stimela (Coaltrain) (1974)
• Part of a Whole (1972)
• The Big Apple (1972)

Sources

• EN: Introducing Hedzoleh Soundz

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