Soul and jazz Music of South Africa
The late 60s saw the emergence of soul music from the United States. Singers such as Percy Sledge and Wilson Pickett were particularly ren...
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The
late 60s saw the emergence of soul music from the United States. Singers such
as Percy Sledge and Wilson Pickett were particularly renowned, and it
encouraged the South African artists to enter the area with an organ, a
bass-and-drum beat part and an electric guitar.
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Also,
during the 60s, jazz divided into two fields. Renowned dance ensembles like Elite Swingsters were well-known, while
avant-garde jazz encouraged by the composition of John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins
and Thelonious were also popular. In
the later filed of artists comprised notable activists and thinkers, which
include Abduallah Ibrahim (who is
formerly called Dollar Brand), Hugh
Masekela, Johnny Dyani, Chris McGregor, Kippie
Moeketsi, Jonas Gwangwa and Sathima
Bea Benjamin. In the year 1959, an American pianist known as John Mehegan organized a recording unit
using many of the most notable South African jazz artists, resulting in the
first two African jazz LPs. The coming year saw the Cold Castle National Jazz
Festival, which introduced additional interest to South African jazz. Cold
Castle became a yearly occasion for a few years, and introduced more artists,
particularly Dudu Pukwana, Chris
McGregor and Gideon Nxumalo. The year
1963 festival produced a LP known as Jazz the African Sound, but which the
oppression of the government ended the jazz scene soon. Again, many artists
moved or went into exile in the United Kingdom and many other countries.
Nevertheless,
the African Jazz of the north of South African was being popularized in
Johannesburg and the artists in Cape Town were developing to their jazz
tradition. The port city had a long record of musical collaboration with
seafaring players. Emerge of the Coon carnival and the visionary talent of Abdullah
Ibrahim (also known as Dollar Brand) and his sax players, such as Robbie Jansen
and Bassil Coetzee dominated the Cape
Jazz. This was an improvised form of their traditional songs with musical
references to European and American jazz which after 20 year becoming South
African most popular jazz export.
