March-27th-2003, 08:29 AM
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Brotherhood of Breath
South African expats Chris MacGregor, Mongezi Feza, Harry Miller, Louis Moholo and Dudu Pukwana were joined by British free-jazz talents including Evan Parker, Gary Windo, others (12 players total on this date). January 1973 saw them hit their peak, captured here for radio broadcast.
The above from the description of their cd "Travelling Somewhere." Has anyone heard this and can give any feedback? Hard to resist buying it but I'd like to know if anyone else has heard it, and if the sound quality is OK.
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March-27th-2003, 09:26 AM
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swing high swing higher
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a great band, a great performance - fair sound
a must buy even if it had only the opening track - same tune that opens the self-ttiled studio recording - only this time they open up the incredible theme and improvise over it, under it - and with it - and they bring it back, take it out - destroy the memory - bring it back - after 12 minutes I can only imagine what the audience must have felt......
band is on fire....Feza, Pukwana, MOHOLO - the whole crew is there.....
IMO, one of the greatest performance bands ever - I can only imagine what it must have been like to see them.....
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March-27th-2003, 09:26 AM
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It's pretty much as good as it sounds, Bill. The sound quality isn't great, but the solos form Dudu Pukwana, Mike Osborne, and Mongezi Feza are worth the price of admission alone and the tunes are fantastic. No solos from Evan Parker, unfortunately--I would have loved to hear him in this setting.
There's also apparently a studio album by the Brotherhood of Breath on an Ogun CD; I think Reynolds has it.
At any rate, Travelling Somewhere is well worth it--burning, passionate music, as you probably expect.
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March-27th-2003, 09:29 AM
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swing high swing higher
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Evan Parker does solo on the Ogun Live in Willisau CD - the studio recording is on a different label.
Travelling Somewhere is BETTER than Live in Willisau
I love my man Evan , but I'd much rather hear Dudu than Evan in this context
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March-27th-2003, 11:04 AM
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As far as sound quality goes, it should be mentioned that Chris McGregor is playing a nasty out of tune piano throughout.
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March-27th-2003, 11:10 AM
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Buy it, enjoy it, love it.
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March-27th-2003, 11:15 AM
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Not quite as good as the self-titled RCA-Neon release (which finally made it to CD.) Has anyone heard the second RCA release titled "Brotherhood"? I've only seen reference to it, but have never actually seen or heard it.
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March-27th-2003, 12:34 PM
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The band sounds still sounds pretty ragged on this to me, but what a joyous raggedness it is.
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March-27th-2003, 01:16 PM
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Thanks to all for the recs.
MichaelR: did you get that domestically? There's one on Ebay now but I've never seen it in a store or online and was wondering what the going price was (the Ebay price seemed high).
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