I wrote on May 26: In Memory of Chris McGregor: Christopher McGregor (24 December 1936 – 26 May 1990) was a South African jazz pianist, bandleader and composer born in Somerset West, South Africa. This music is a rich and varied music which pervaded every aspect of life - from formal rituals to the casual activities and encounters of everyday life, such as herding cattle or just walking home in the evening. Music was everywhere. And this music, as explained in Dave Dargies seminal book Xhosa Music, is complex. Dargie mentions the following as examples of this complexity which might be seen to have influenced McGregor in his own music, both as composer/arranger and as band leader: ...a great number of style characteristics are to be found: relating not only to harmony and scale, but to melody, structure and phrasing, form, rhythm, instrumentation, singing techniques, and so on. (Wiki) Chris McGregor and his Blue Notes - German Luger youtube/watch?v=RvGiXsoifM0 Chris McGregors Brotherhood of Breath - Davashes Dream youtube/watch?v=6un3uIaPBIE Chris McGregors Brotherhood of Breath - Nick Tete youtube/watch?v=wLdrA_1cBmM
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 12:51:43 +0000
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