Soweto

Billy Higgins · 1979 · Composition de Billy Higgins, titre éponyme

Context

Eponymous title of Billy Higgins's first album as a leader, recorded in Milan in January 1979 for the Italian label Red. The quartet brings together Bob Berg, Cedar Walton and Tony Dumas.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Hard bop, Neoclassicism, Young Lions. Among the origins and influences of Hard bop: Blues, spirituals, work songs, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).

By the same artist

• Clockwise (1979)
• Neptune (1979)
• Back to Bologna (1979)
• Bahia, Bahia, Bahia (1979)

Sources

• EN: Soweto (album)
• EN: Billy Higgins

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