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Dudu Pukwana, the Glossary

Mthutuzeli Dudu Pukwana (18 July 1938 – 30 June 1990) was a South African saxophonist and composer.^[1]

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African jazz (genre) saxophonists
Assagai members
Avant-garde jazz saxophonists
Brotherhood of Breath members
Centipede (band) members
Freedom Records artists
South African jazz composers
South African jazz saxophonists
The Blue Notes members

Afro rock

Afro rock is a style of rock music with African influences.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.

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Alto saxophone

The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments.

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Apartheid

Apartheid (especially South African English) was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s.

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Assagai

Assagai was an Afro-rock band, active in the early 1970s in London, whose relatively short career produced two albums recorded in 1971.

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Before the Wind Changes

Before the Wind Changes is a live album by The Blue Notes, featuring alto saxophonist Dudu Pukwana, pianist Chris McGregor, double bassist Johnny Dyani, and drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo.

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Belsize Park

Belsize Park is a residential area of Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden (the inner north-west of London), England.

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Blue Notes for Johnny

Blue Notes for Johnny is an album by The Blue Notes, featuring saxophonist Dudu Pukwana, pianist Chris McGregor, and drummer Louis Moholo.

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Blue Notes for Mongezi

Blue Notes for Mongezi is an album by The Blue Notes, featuring saxophonist Dudu Pukwana, pianist Chris McGregor, bassist Johnny Dyani, and drummer Louis Moholo.

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Blue Notes in Concert Volume 1

Blue Notes in Concert Volume 1 is a live album by The Blue Notes, featuring saxophonist Dudu Pukwana, pianist Chris McGregor, bassist Johnny Dyani, and drummer Louis Moholo.

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Bracknell Jazz Festival

The Bracknell Jazz Festival was a major showcase for British modern jazz in the 1980s.

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Bremen to Bridgwater

Bremen to Bridgwater is a double-CD live album by South African pianist and composer Chris McGregor's big band Brotherhood of Breath.

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The Brotherhood of Breath was an English-South African big band established in the late-1960s by South African pianist and composer Chris McGregor, an extension of McGregor's previous band, The Blue Notes.

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Caroline Records

Caroline Records is a record label originally founded in 1973.

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Centipede (band)

Centipede were an English jazz/progressive rock/big band with more than 50 members, organized and led by the British free jazz pianist Keith Tippett.

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Charly Records

Charly Records is a British record label that specialises in reissued material.

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Chris McGregor

Christopher McGregor (24 December 1936 – 26 May 1990) was a South African jazz pianist, bandleader and composer born in Somerset West, South Africa. Dudu Pukwana and Chris McGregor are 20th-century jazz composers, south African jazz composers and the Blue Notes members.

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Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath

Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath is the debut album by South African pianist and composer Chris McGregor's big band of the same name.

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Composer

A composer is a person who writes music.

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Cry Freedom

Cry Freedom is a 1987 epic biographical drama film directed and produced by Richard Attenborough, set in late-1970s apartheid-era South Africa.

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Decameron (band)

Decameron were an English folk rock and progressive rock band, existing from 1968 to 1976.

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Diamond Express

Diamond Express is an album by South African alto saxophonist and composer Dudu Pukwana.

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Django Bates

Django Bates (born Leon Bates, 2 October 1960) is a British jazz musician, composer, multi-instrumentalist, band leader and educator.

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DownBeat

(styled in all caps) is an American music magazine devoted to "jazz, blues and beyond", the last word indicating its expansion beyond the jazz realm which it covered exclusively in previous years.

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Dudu Phukwana and the "Spears"

Dudu Phukwana and the "Spears" is the debut album by South African saxophonist Dudu Pukwana and his band, the "Spears." Produced by Joe Boyd, it was recorded in 1968 at Sound Techniques in London, and was initially released on vinyl in 1969 by Quality Records, a subsidiary of the Trutone label.

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Eclipse at Dawn

Eclipse at Dawn is a live album by South African pianist and composer Chris McGregor's big band Brotherhood of Breath.

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Elton Dean

Elton Dean (28 October 1945 – 8 February 2006) was an English jazz musician who performed on alto saxophone, saxello (a variant of the soprano saxophone) and occasionally keyboards. Dudu Pukwana and Elton Dean are 20th-century saxophonists and Centipede (band) members.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Freedom Records

Freedom Records was a jazz record label headed by Shel Safran and founded by Alan Bates as a division of Black Lion Records.

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Gary Windo

Gary Windo (7 November 1941, in Brighton, England – 25 July 1992, in New York City) was an English jazz tenor saxophonist. Dudu Pukwana and Gary Windo are 20th-century saxophonists and Centipede (band) members.

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George Fenton

George Richard Ian Howe (born 19 October 1949), known professionally as George Fenton, is an English composer.

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Gideon Nxumalo

Gideon "Mgibe" Nxumalo (15 June 1929 in Kimberley, Cape Province – 24 December 1970) was a South African jazz pianist and marimba player, acclaimed also as a composer and arranger.

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Gqeberha

Gqeberha, formerly known as Port Elizabeth, and colloquially referred to as P.E., is a major seaport and the most populous city in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

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Home Is Where the Music Is

Home Is Where the Music Is is a 1972 jazz and Afrobeat double LP by Hugh Masekela issued by the joint American label Chisa/Blue Thumb Records.

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Hugh Masekela

Hugh Ramapolo Masekela (4 April 1939 – 23 January 2018) was a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, singer and composer who was described as "the father of South African jazz". Dudu Pukwana and Hugh Masekela are south African jazz composers.

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In the Townships

In the Townships is an album by South African alto saxophonist, pianist, and composer Dudu Pukwana.

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Instant Composers Pool

Instant Composers Pool (ICP) is an independent Dutch jazz and improvised music label and orchestra.

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Jabula

Jabula (isiZulu: "rejoice") was a musical ensemble of South African musicians exiled in England during the Apartheid era, led by Julian Bahula.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.

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Johannesburg

Johannesburg (Zulu and Xhosa: eGoli) (colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, Jo'burg or "The City of Gold") is the most populous city in South Africa with 4,803,262 people, and is classified as a megacity; it is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world.

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John Stevens (drummer)

John William Stevens (10 June 1940 – 13 September 1994) was an English drummer, and a founding member of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble.

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Johnny Dyani

Johnny Mbizo Dyani (30 November 1945 – 24 October 1986) was a South African jazz double bassist, vocalist and pianist, who, in addition to being a key member of The Blue Notes, played with such international musicians as Don Cherry, Steve Lacy, David Murray, Finnish guitar player Jukka Syrenius, Pierre Dørge, Peter Brötzmann, Mal Waldron, fellow South African Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim), and Leo Smith, among many other prominent players. Dudu Pukwana and Johnny Dyani are Brotherhood of Breath members and the Blue Notes members.

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Jonas Gwangwa

Jonas Mosa Gwangwa (19 October 1937 – 23 January 2021) was a South African jazz musician, songwriter and producer.

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Keith Tippett

Keith Graham Tippetts (25 August 1947 – 14 June 2020), known professionally as Keith Tippett, was a British jazz pianist and composer. Dudu Pukwana and Keith Tippett are Centipede (band) members.

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Kippie Moeketsi

Jeremiah "Kippie" Morolong Moeketsi (27 July 1925 – 27 April 1983) was a South African jazz musician, notable as an alto saxophonist. Dudu Pukwana and Kippie Moeketsi are 20th-century saxophonists and south African jazz saxophonists.

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Kwela

Kwela is a pennywhistle-based street music from southern Africa with jazzy underpinnings and a distinctive, skiffle-like beat.

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Legacy: Live in South Afrika 1964

Legacy: Live in South Afrika 1964 is a live album by The Blue Notes, featuring saxophonists Nick Moyake and Dudu Pukwana, trumpeter Mongezi Feza, pianist Chris McGregor, double bassist Johnny Dyani, and drummer Louis Moholo.

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Live at Willisau

Live at Willisau is a live album by South African pianist and composer Chris McGregor's big band Brotherhood of Breath.

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Liver failure

Liver failure is the inability of the liver to perform its normal synthetic and metabolic functions as part of normal physiology.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Louis Moholo

Louis Tebogo Moholo (born 10 March 1940), is a South African jazz drummer. Dudu Pukwana and Louis Moholo are Assagai members, Brotherhood of Breath members and the Blue Notes members.

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Matata (band)

Matata was a prominent African rock and funk band that was formed in Nairobi during the 1960s.

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Mike Heron

James Michael Heron (born 27 December 1942) is a Scottish singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known for his work in the Incredible String Band in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Mongezi Feza

Mongezi Feza (11 May 1945 – 14 December 1975) was a South African jazz trumpeter and flautist. Dudu Pukwana and Mongezi Feza are Assagai members, Brotherhood of Breath members, Centipede (band) members and the Blue Notes members.

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Nelson Mandela: An International Tribute for a Free South Africa

Nelson Mandela: An International Tribute for a Free South Africa was a music concert that took place on 16 April 1990 at Wembley Stadium in London, England, and was broadcast to more than 60 countries.

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Nikele Moyake

Nikele (Nik) Moyake (c. 1933 – c. 1966) was born on a farm in Addo in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Dudu Pukwana and Nikele Moyake are 20th-century saxophonists and the Blue Notes members.

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Ogun Records

Ogun Records is a jazz record label created in London in 1973 by South African expatriate bassist Harry Miller, his wife Hazel Miller, and sound engineer Keith Beal.

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Peter Elman

Peter Elman is an American writer, musician and teacher.

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Piano

The piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, through engagement of an action whose hammers strike strings.

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Procession (Live at Toulouse)

Procession (Live at Toulouse) is a live album by South African pianist and composer Chris McGregor's big band Brotherhood of Breath.

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Reggae Got Soul

Reggae Got Soul is an album by the Jamaican reggae group Toots and the Maytals, released in July 1976 by Island Records.

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Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club

Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club is a jazz club that has operated in Soho, London, since 1959.

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Rough Guides

Founded in 1982, Rough Guides Ltd is a British publisher of print and digital guide book, phrasebooks and inspirational travel reference books, and a provider of personalised trips.

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Saxophone

The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass.

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Septober Energy

Septober Energy is the only album of the jazz/progressive rock big band Centipede.

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Smiling Men with Bad Reputations

Smiling Men with Bad Reputations is the 1971 solo debut album by Mike Heron of the Incredible String Band (ISB).

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Song for Biko

Song for Biko is an album by the Johnny Dyani Quartet, led by bassist Dyani, and featuring saxophonist Dudu Pukwana, cornetist Don Cherry, and drummer Makaya Ntshoko.

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Soprano saxophone

The soprano saxophone is a small, high-pitched member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented in the 1840s by Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax.

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Spiritual Knowledge and Grace

Spiritual Knowledge and Grace is a live album by drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo, saxophonist Dudu Pukwana, bassist and pianist Johnny Dyani, and saxophonist Frank Wright.

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SteepleChase Records

SteepleChase Records is a jazz record company and label based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Tenor saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s.

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The Blue Notes

The Blue Notes were a South African jazz sextet, whose definitive line-up featured Chris McGregor on piano, Mongezi Feza on trumpet, Dudu Pukwana on alto saxophone, Nikele Moyake on tenor saxophone, Johnny Dyani on bass, and Louis Moholo-Moholo on drums. Dudu Pukwana and The Blue Notes are the Blue Notes members.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudu_Pukwana

, Louis Moholo, Matata (band), Mike Heron, Mongezi Feza, Nelson Mandela: An International Tribute for a Free South Africa, Nikele Moyake, Ogun Records, Peter Elman, Piano, Procession (Live at Toulouse), Reggae Got Soul, Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, Rough Guides, Saxophone, Septober Energy, Smiling Men with Bad Reputations, Song for Biko, Soprano saxophone, Spiritual Knowledge and Grace, SteepleChase Records, Tenor saxophone, The Blue Notes, The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The Manor Studio, The Ogun Collection, Thunder into Our Hearts, Toots and the Maytals, Township Bop, Travelling Somewhere, Up to Earth, Vertigo Records, Very Urgent, Virgin Books, Virgin Records, Walmer, Gqeberha, Wembley Stadium, Witchdoctor's Son, Zimbabwe (Assagai album), Zurich, 77 Records.

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See also

African jazz (genre) saxophonists

Assagai members

Avant-garde jazz saxophonists

Brotherhood of Breath members

Centipede (band) members

Freedom Records artists

South African jazz composers

South African jazz saxophonists

The Blue Notes members

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