Tag: Dollar Brand

• Billy Brooks’ crucially sampled and sought after classic will be reissued by Wewantsounds – featuring instantly recognisable loop for A Tribe Called Quest

  

  This is a much needed quality reissue of Billy Brooks’ classic LP Windows of the Mind by French label Wewantsounds – OGs change hands for hundreds of dollars and this revive is fully licensed and remastered. Billy Brooks was a reliable session musician playing throughout the 1950s and into the early ’70s, playing with the…

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  July 17, 2020

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  African Songbird, Billy Brooks, Black Jazz Records, Cal Tjader, Calvin Keys, Clarence Johnston, Crossover Records, Dollar Brand, Earth Wind & Fire, Fourty Days, Freddie Roach, Funk, Herman Riley, James Moody, Jef Lee, Larry Gales, Letta Mbulu, Lionel Hampton, Luck of Lucien, People’s Instinctive Travels And The Paths Of Rhythm, Pleasure, Ray Charles and is jazz, Roy Ayers, Side Effect, Sylvia Striplin, Thelonious Monk, Tribe Called Quest, Wewantsounds, Windows of the Mind

• Interview: Matsuli Music

  World Treasures Music spoke to Matt Temple from Matsuli Music –  a specialist label reissuing priceless vinyl from South Africa. Their releases include Batsumi’s seminal spiritual jazz albums, Sathima Bea Benjamin’s African Songbird LP (with Dollar Brand), Dick Choza’s Chapita LP and most recently Ndikho Xaba’s holy grail, Ndikho Xaba and the Natives. To read the interview and…

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  March 23, 2015

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  African Songbird, Batsumi, Chris Albertyn, Dick Khoza, Dollar Brand, Jazz, Johnny Mothopeng, Matsuli Music, Matt Temple, Ndikho Xaba And The Natives, Rashid Vally, Sathima Bea Benjamin, South Africa