Saturday 9th November 2013
Dear lover of South African Jazz
RE: “Keeping
Time”
You are invited to get this book while you can. Keeping Time celebrates the public
emergence of an extraordinary visual and audio archive begun by Ian Bruce
Huntley in Cape Town fifty years ago.
A handful of the musicians Ian Huntley worked
with are still alive today. Some had few opportunities to record commercially -
whilst others remain woefully under-documented. Combined with the loss to exile
of yet more key people in South Africa’s jazz history, and the few previously accessible
recordings from these times, there is a deficit in our historical understanding
and resources.
The new found accessibility of this previously
hidden archive gives lovers of South African music, scholars, musicians,
artists, anyone who is fascinated with the achievements of a generation of
South African jazz musicians, a small but invaluable means towards
maintaining
memory and articulating lost stories.
Published by Chris Albertyn and Associates in
partnership with
Electric Jive, this cloth-bound hard-cover book is printed on
high quality art paper and is being sold at the price it cost to produce. In
addition to a biographical sketch of Ian Huntley, the book offers a substantial
essay by Jonathan Eato, a full discography of all 56 hours of the recordings
Ian made, and a comprehensive index.
Because of the high-quality art paper used the book weighs in at just over 1.5kgs. The post and packaging charges below are not marked up - they are the real cost. (not counting labour).
From USA: $59.99 + $4.00 postage (P&P to anywhere else worldwide $35.00) SOLD OUT
From EUROPE:
£39.99 + P&P: to UK (£6.70 - untracked, second class mail); to EU £13.50; anywhere else in the world £24.00 - STOCKS BECOMING LOW
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| CLICK ON THE PICTURE TO SEND AN E-MAIL ORDER ENQUIRY 160 pages - 30cm x 25cm - 158gsm art paper - hard cover |
This limited edition run of 500 opens a window
to a little known era of South Africa’s music history, documenting a generation
of jazz musicians in 120 selected and carefully restored colour and black and
white images. Ian’s pictures and 56 hours of audio recordings capture an
‘underground’ jazz scene that persisted in creative defiance of all that grand
apartheid threw at it. Many of the photographed live performances are indexed in
this book and all will soon become available for free download through Electric
Jive.
A handful of the musicians Ian Huntley worked
with are still alive today. Some had few opportunities to record commercially -
whilst others remain woefully under-documented. Combined with the loss to exile
of yet more key people in South Africa’s jazz history, and the few previously accessible
recordings from these times, there is a deficit in our historical understanding
and resources.
The new found accessibility of this previously
hidden archive gives lovers of South African music, scholars, musicians,
artists, anyone who is fascinated with the achievements of a generation of
South African jazz musicians, a small but invaluable means towards 
Electric Jive, this cloth-bound hard-cover book is printed on
high quality art paper and is being sold at the price it cost to produce. In
addition to a biographical sketch of Ian Huntley, the book offers a substantial
essay by Jonathan Eato, a full discography of all 56 hours of the recordings
Ian made, and a comprehensive index.
South African artist Siemon Allen is
responsible for the design and layout. Photographer Cedric Nunn has
painstakingly restored the images.
ORDER YOURS NOW
From USA: $59.99 + $4.00 postage (P&P to anywhere else worldwide $35.00) SOLD OUT
From EUROPE:
£39.99 + P&P: to UK (£6.70 - untracked, second class mail); to EU £13.50; anywhere else in the world £24.00 - STOCKS BECOMING LOW
From SOUTH AFRICA: R438.50 + R61.39 VAT = R499.89.
P&P R45.00. (ordinary parcel service)
SADC: R460.00. P&P R270.00
Rest of World – from South Africa: ZAR470.00. P&P ZAR470.00
Yours sincerely
Chris Albertyn
e-mail me: recordforthe AT gmail DOT com to place your order
My copy arrived yesterday: what a beautiful thing! The pictures are fantastic. Thank you all for your work in putting this together. MB
ReplyDeleteWonderful MB - thank you, as always, for your feedback - it really does make the pleasure of what we do even sweeter - Cheers, Chris
ReplyDeleteIs there CD / Vinyl compilation for this book?
ReplyDeleteGreetings anonymous - there is no CD/vinyl audio compilation of this archive. The full audio archive will be presented on Electric Jive in the next month or so.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful Book!!!Thankyou
ReplyDeleteHi there Chris,
ReplyDeleteFantastic! just picked up a copy of Keeping Time at Other Music in NYC.
What a beauty!
Checking in to see when the recordings will be available?
cheers,
Victor
Thanks Victor for your affirming comment. We are now officialy SOLD OUT in the USA - "Other Music" have asked for more and we have given them our last five copies.
ReplyDeleteAs for the recordings Victor - a family bereavement has set me back from my original target dates, but believe me, I am itching to get on with getting it all out there
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ReplyDelete7298Need to place an order from the US please Ian!
ReplyDeletePlease do not say you are sold out in the US! Please!
ReplyDeleteHi, sorry to hear of bereavement. I sent an email on 23 January from UK (re-sent today). Hoping very much I can obtain a copy of this.
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