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The Chris McGregor Group

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The greatest thing to happen in our jazz

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  • Authors: Unknown
  • Subjects: McGregor, Chris--1936-1990 , Blue Notes (Musical group : South Africa) , Dollar Brand , Jazz Epistle
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: vital:13754 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012769
  • Description: Photocopied article from the newspaper Zonk about the recordings Jazz/The African Sound by Chris McGregor and the Castle Lager Big Band. There are two pictures with this article. The top one shows a tenor saxophonist and 4 saxophonists are playing on the bottom picture (from left to right: Ronnie Beer, Chris Columbus, Dudu Pukwana).
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The Independent - Chris McGregor.

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The jazz years

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  • Authors: Unknown
  • Subjects: McGregor, Chris--1936-1990 , Blue Notes (Musical group : South Africa) , Gallo , Jazz
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: vital:13756 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012771
  • Description: Photocopied article by Gallo archivist Rob Allingham who "looked into recordings by the company since its inception in 1926". There is also a picture of the Blue Notes with this article.
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The Legacy - Chris McGregor: An African way of swing

- Anderson, Muff, Lock, Graham, Wilmer, Val, Kilby, Jak

  • Authors: Anderson, Muff , Lock, Graham , Wilmer, Val , Kilby, Jak
  • Subjects: Jazz , Jazz musicians , McGregor, Chris -- 1936-1990 , Moholo, Louis T. -- 1940- , Beer, Ronnie , Miller, Harry , Pukwana, Dudu , Bahula, julian , Feza, Mongezi , Brotherhood of Breath (Musical group) , Blue Notes (Musical group : South Africa) , Dyani, Johnny Mbizo
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: vital:13473 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001395 , Jazz , Jazz musicians , McGregor, Chris -- 1936-1990 , Moholo, Louis T. -- 1940- , Beer, Ronnie , Miller, Harry , Pukwana, Dudu , Bahula, julian , Feza, Mongezi , Brotherhood of Breath (Musical group) , Blue Notes (Musical group : South Africa) , Dyani, Johnny Mbizo
  • Description: The legacy: An African way of swing. South African pianist and band-leader Chris McGregor drops out of the sky to tell Graham Lock about his roots in African village music and outline his plans for his legendary bunch of huffers and puffers, Brotherhood of Breath. , Photocopied articles from the magazine The Wire about each of the main members of Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath. The magazine details the life of CHris McGregor amongst Dudu Pukwana, Johnny Dyani, Harry Miller, Mongezi Feza, Louis Moholo, Ronnie Beer and Julian Bahula. There is a picture of the first performance at ICA, London, by the Blue Notes (from left to right: Dudu Pukwana playing saxophone, Mongezi Feza playing trumpet, Johnny Dyani playing double bass and Chris McGregor playing piano). A photo of Mongezi Feza playing trumpet is on the second page. The third page is about Harry Miller and there is a picture of a band playing on stage featuring, from left to right, Nick Evans playing trombone, Mike Osborne, Mongezi Feza holding his trumpet, Harry Miller playing double bass and Louis Moholo playing drums. The fourth and the fifth page are about Dudu Pukwana's life and there are 2 pictures with this article. The top picture shows, from left to right, Hugh Masekela playing trumpet and Dudu Pukwana playing saxophone. The second picture represents Dudu Pukwana holding his saxophone and singing along with Pinise Saul. The next page is about Mongezi Feza and there is a picture where we can see him playing trumpet next to Dudu Pukwana playing the saxophone. The next article is about Louis Moholo. A picture of himself with Nana Tsiboe and Nii Moi Aquaye is accompanying this article. The next page features saxophonist Ronnie Beer and a picture of himself with Chris McGregor in 1969 is also with this article. The ninth page of the article is about Johnny Dyani and is accompanied by 2 pictures of Johnny Dyani with his Double Bass. An article on Chris McGregor's life comes next. There are 2 pictures. The first picture, on the tenth page shows Chris McGregor playing piano and the second picture, on the next page features Chris McGregor playing piano on stage with the Brotherhood of Breath in 1974. Julian Bahula is next on the list and there is a picture of the band Jazz Afrika, with, from left to right, Dave Chambers playing saxophone, Peter Segone playing trumpet and Julian Bahula playing drums. The next page of the article is exploring the musicians music life after the Brotherhood of Breath and the Blue Notes and gives their selected discography. There is also a picture of Chris McGregor playing piano with Harry Miller playing Double Bass in Soweto in 1971. The next 4 pages are specifically on the Brotherhood of Breath. There are 2 pictures with this article. The first one shows Chris McGregor playing piano with 4 members of the band (2 trombone and 2 trumpet players) and the second picture is a portrait of Chris McGregor.
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The McGregor legend on record at last

- Houston, Bob

The promises of "Halle that jazz" at La Villette, Paris, France

- Marmande, Francis

  • Authors: Marmande, Francis
  • Subjects: McGregor, Chris--1936-1990 , Brotherhood of Breath (Musical group) , Clegg, Johnny , Ibrahim, Abdullah , Blue Notes (Musical group : South Africa)
  • Language: French
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:13599 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012255 , McGregor, Chris--1936-1990 , Brotherhood of Breath (Musical group) , Clegg, Johnny , Ibrahim, Abdullah , Blue Notes (Musical group : South Africa)
  • Description: Photocopied article from the French newspaper Le Monde, entitled "The South African's pioneers", about Chris McGregor and Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim), both pianists who came to and stayed in Europe to play their music the way they wanted. An announcement of 4 days of concerts is located in a square on the right side of the article. Two pictures are accompanying this article. The top one represents Chris McGregor wearing a music notes printed shirt and on the bottom picture, Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim) is playing Piano.
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The show must go on

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The Times - Chris McGregor

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These we dig of yore

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To Chris McGregor

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Top jazz group visiting city

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Toscana, the beautiful country where the jazz sounds

- Malagnini, Fabio

Total Music Meeting '80

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Very Urgent

- Cooke, Jack

White in top African jazz concert

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