Reggie Msomi was a prolific writer who drew upon and fused multiple cosmopolitan influences into a sound that must have energised Western and African audiences alike. While having its distinct South Africa flavour, this fusion of jazz, jive, ska and twist would – if it had been so distributed - most likely have filled sixties dance-floors from Kingston to Kinshasa – from New York via London back to New Orleans.
In addition to "Twisting with Reggie" on the Gallo "New Sound" label NSL 1007 (c1962) there are some bonus test recordings that Reggie Msomi did with the Hollywood Jazz Band for Gallotone. And to round this feast off, is a 1968 Hollywood Jazz Band single on the Smanje Manje label.
All of this is packaged into one folder at 320kbps. Apologies for no Mediafire download on this one – so far. The 109mb upload attempts to mediafire have been dropped so many times that time constraints and exceeding monthly bandwidth allocation have put that project on pause.
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7 comments:
Great post - thanks! I was wondering where 'Time for Jazz' was from as I couldn't find it on any of the covers you posted.
Keep up the good work.
The RS link isn't working for me, unfortunately, though I shouldn't really complain since I'm not a paying RS member. Is the free link working for anyone else?
Wonderful post, thank you Siemon and ElectricJive. It's so good to delve further into the SA music scene at this time. And what a shame so much of this fantastic material has remained unreleased! There's probably a great market for this kind of thing... collectors, aficionados, youngsters, general fans of this kind of music etc etc.
NL
@ Bill Mill:
The RS link worked for me.
By the way, JDownloader is a great tool for RS links.
Had great fun playing this yesterday - will have to listen to the other album and the bonus stuff you put up as well... you know, this music you share brings so much pleasure to me, but I usually lag so far behind... keep bringing up the goodies! ... please!
I would like to hear some single from that band, I like the Jazz Music and I am taking Sax Lessons, I would like to be part of a Jazz Band.
Excellent record, he can really play some incredible music, thanks for the post.
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