7 April 2011

Sean Bergin & Radio Freedom All Stars - Jazz For Freedom!


Tracks:

1. Sonia (Mongezi Feza) 12.52
2. Sofa (Sean Bergin) 7.54
3. Park Station (Mervyn Africa) / Dudu (Sean Bergin) 19.41
4. Gwidza (Dollar Brand) 8.56
5. Tutu 1 & 2 (Sean Bergin) 15.12

Line-up:

Claude Deppa - trumpet
Wolter Weirbos - trombone
Sean Bergin - soprano & tenor sax, concertina, voice
Michael Moore - alto sax, clarinet
Mervyn Africa - piano
Franky Douglas - guitar
Ernst Reijseger - cello
Paul Rogers - bass
Lesley Joseph - bass guitar
Eddy Veldman - drums (left channel)
Louis Moholo - drums (right channel)

Recorded November 24, 1989 at Nederlands Congresgebouw, Hague, Holland

Varajazz 1990 (Varagram VCD 006-02)

This joyous celebration of SA jazz & freedom is led by South African born saxophonist Sean Bergin, based in Holland, and was recorded as live radio session. Line up is a mixture of Dutch and South African players and includes Master drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo (Bergin was member of his band Viva La Black at the time) and trumpeter Claude Deppa. Comprised of 3 Bergin's compositions plus a piece by pianist Mervyn Afrika, one Dollar Brand's tune and legendary theme Sonia by Mongezi Feza, immortalised by Robert Wyatt on his Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard album, Jazz For Freedom is maybe not as great as Brotherhood Of Breath, their individual members' work or other Bergin's recordings, but still worth to hear and pretty rare to find. This cd was surprising found object at one Prague second hand music cellar for me and is unavailable for long time I believe, as Dutch Varagram label is no more in function due to my research.
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17 comments:

  1. miloo27 April 2011 at 14:24:00 CEST

    flac
    http://www.multiupload.com/9JPZX18O38

    mp3@320
    http://www.multiupload.com/L3X20D5PYJ

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  2. wightdj7 April 2011 at 17:49:00 CEST

    Delightful, thanks.

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  3. mike7 April 2011 at 20:31:00 CEST

    Thanks for this, miloo!

    Any chance we'll see those Elton Dean's, too? "Bologna Tapes" and "Welcomet"? I'd love to see those.

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  4. kinabalu8 April 2011 at 00:14:00 CEST

    I'll dip into this for sure! And welcome to the club!

    I have the Bologna tapes, but if Miloo wants to have a go at it, be my guest!

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  5. miloo28 April 2011 at 13:12:00 CEST

    K: I am honoured to be in this club :)

    M: I already uploaded Bologna Tape mp3, if you don't want to wait for flac - http://ultrashare.net/hosting/fl/8689401980

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  6. Nick9 April 2011 at 20:07:00 CEST

    This is wonderful, Miloo, and thanks to everyone for the posts on this amazing blog.

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  7. mike17 April 2011 at 03:23:00 CEST

    Thanks, miloo, but the link does not seem to open. I've had several others on SoulSeek try it too, and they cannot open the link either. Could you post it on another sharing site? Thanks in advance!

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  8. miloo217 April 2011 at 08:48:00 CEST

    You are right, Mike. Ultrashare seems not working at the moment, maybe some server problem. I will try to up on multiupload. I am preparing Welcomet too, but it has some craclings, despite that it was completely new vinyl, and i am still working on it, so be patient please. Cheers.

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  9. miloo217 April 2011 at 18:56:00 CEST

    EDQ The Bologna Tape re-up: http://www.multiupload.com/Y8V7QL7VPB

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  10. mike18 April 2011 at 04:51:00 CEST

    Thanks, miloo2!!

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  11. miloo225 February 2012 at 10:06:00 CET

    This comment has been removed by the author.

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  12. miloo229 April 2012 at 19:10:00 CEST

    once more here RS flac

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  13. Henri14 May 2012 at 16:03:00 CEST

    Thanks for the re-up...sounds great. It would be nice if you could make the Bologna Tape available again (as a post of its own maybe?) please, please...mind you, I am already overwhelmed by the treasures to be found on your brilliant blog...

    Henri

    multiupload link for Bologna Tape only gives depositfiles link [http://depositfiles.com/files/yd7g1nt8f] which is Dead.

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  14. kinabalu14 May 2012 at 21:30:00 CEST

    As I said above, I have the Bologna Tapes on vinyl, but if Miloo2 wants to have another go at it, it's fine with me. We'll work this out to everyone's satisfaction, I'm sure.

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  15. miloo221 May 2012 at 10:21:00 CEST

    The Bologna Tape will be up soon as a proper post, at last.

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  16. Peter9 October 2012 at 10:44:00 CEST

    All links gone unfortunately.

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  17. miloo29 October 2012 at 23:02:00 CEST

    Peter, if You man Bergin, RS link above is still on - https://rapidshare.com/files/2328043760/SEA_BERG_-_JzzFrFrdm__1989_.7z

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