8 March 2010

Dudu Pukwana and Zila - Live in Bracknell & Willisau





More Dudu Pukwana coming up. I have already posted the first record with Zila and the third will soon be up. On this record, he can draw on veteran Harry Beckett as well as then up-and-coming Django Bates. In my opinion, this one is better than the first, giving both Pukwana and Beckett the chance to stretch out on the fetured pieces, not unrelated to their being performed at jazz festivals in the UK and Switzerland. As I said before, possibly not as interesting from the pure jazz point of view as the 70s combo Spear, but these pieces swing pretty hard, enhanced by the vocal presence of Pinise Saul.

Dudu Pukwana and Zila - Live in Bracknell and Willisau featuring Pinise Saul

Side A

1.Hug Pine (Bambelela) - Dudu Pukwana
2.Mahlomole (Lament) - Thebe Lipere
3.Lafente (Ntabemi - In The Mountains) - Dudu Pukwana
4.Baqanga Bay - Dudu Pukwana
5.Freely - Django Bates

Side B

1.Funk Them to Eriko - Johnny Dyani/Dudu Pukwana
2.Ziyekeleni (Let Them Be) - Mervyn Africa/Dudu Pukwana
3.The Big (Pine)Apple - Hugh Masakela
4.Zama Khwalo (Try Again) - Dudu Pukwana

Zila

Dudu Pukwana - Leader, alto/soprano saxophones, whistles
Harry Beckett - Trumpet/flugelhorn
Django Bates - keyboards
Eric Richards - Electric bass
Paul Gamblin - guitar
Churchill Jolobe - Drums
Thebe Lipere - Congas, percussion, African chanting

A1,A4,B1,B4 recorded live at 1983 Bracknell Jazz Festival, England, by Tim Summerhayes

A2,A3,A5,B2,B3 recorded live at 1983 Willisau Jazz Festival, Switzerland, by Peter Pfister
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15 comments:

  1. kinabalu8 March 2010 at 18:02:00 CET

    This has been posted elsewhere as mp3s, so we'll stick to the flacs here. I would advise readers to go for the flacs as I'm quite satisfied with the sound quality of this record and its transferral to the digital format.

    http://rapidshare.com/files/360661220/Duda_Pukwana_and_Zila_-_Live_in_Bracknell___Willisau.part1.rar.html

    http://rapidshare.com/files/360671274/Duda_Pukwana_and_Zila_-_Live_in_Bracknell___Willisau.part2.rar.html

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  2. Anonymous8 March 2010 at 18:42:00 CET

    Dudu Phukwana and the Spears(Quality LTJ-S 232, 1969) was available elsewhere recently for a short while but withdrawn, any re-appearance would be very welcome.

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  3. Anonymous8 March 2010 at 19:24:00 CET

    Life in Bracknell....nice to have a lossless upgrade for this. Many thanks kinabalu.

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  4. longbranch8 March 2010 at 20:50:00 CET

    Looks great, thanks!

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  5. Wallofsound9 March 2010 at 21:32:00 CET

    I favour the Virgin released LP as his best, but I rate this as a close second.

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  6. kinabalu10 March 2010 at 15:05:00 CET

    Whcih one? I believe both "In the Townships" and "Flute Music" were out on the Caroline subsidiary of Virgin. But both are indeed very good.

    I have the final Zila recording from 1990, too, but just want to check its general availability before going ahead. If our readers find it difficult to get through normal channels, I will put it up here.

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  7. Unknown17 March 2017 at 04:28:00 CET

    any chance of a re-up of this one?

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  8. kinabalu29 March 2017 at 22:27:00 CEST

    Pretty good, I'd say.

    1fichier

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  9. francisco santos30 March 2017 at 04:33:00 CEST

    BIG THX!...

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  10. Guitarradeplastico,scraping oddities30 March 2017 at 17:17:00 CEST

    Many thanks

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  11. Solomon1 April 2017 at 03:42:00 CEST

    Thank you!

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  12. Bhowani3 October 2017 at 20:24:00 CEST

    Wow! what a thill! Thank you, Kinabalu !

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  13. kinabalu27 April 2019 at 12:48:00 CEST

    New link:

    Adrive

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  14. Brewing Luminous15 December 2019 at 18:38:00 CET

    Loving all of this Dudu!

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  15. JColtrane25 July 2020 at 14:55:00 CEST

    Thank you very much

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