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The Rough Guide To Cape Jazz
World Music Network
4 stars
A VINYL set of Cape Town artists who provided the soundtrack of resistance to apartheid.
Featured are jazz/rockers Pacific Express and two of South Africa’s jazz icons sax players Basil “Manenberg” Coetzee and Robbie Jansen, who are represented here on the aptly named Liberation and Cape Joy.
Coetzee got his nickname “Manenberg” from the Abdullah Ibrahim composition named after the district for those forcibly removed from a white residential area during the apartheid regime.
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