{"id":101289,"date":"2017-09-12T06:47:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T04:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/remembering-the-blue-notes-south-africas-first-generation-of-free-jazz-the-conversation\/"},"modified":"2017-09-12T06:47:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T04:47:37","slug":"remembering-the-blue-notes-south-africas-first-generation-of-free-jazz-the-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/remembering-the-blue-notes-south-africas-first-generation-of-free-jazz-the-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering the Blue Notes: South Africa’s first generation of free jazz | The Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remembering the Blue Notes: South Africa’s first generation of free jazz<\/a>: <\/p>\n

South African trumpeter, Marcus Wyatt.<\/span> Muntu Vilakazi\/Sunday Times<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe were all kind of rebels,\u201d drummer Louis Tebogo Moholo-Moholo recalls, \u201cso, like birds of a feather, [we] flocked together.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s talking about the Blue Notes, a multiracial modern jazz outfit formed in Cape Town in the early 1960s. White composer and pianist Chris McGregor joined forces with some of the most radical young black players on the city\u2019s scene: alto saxophonist Dudu Pukwana, tenor saxophonist Nikele Moyake, trumpeter Mongezi Feza, bassist Johnny Mbizo Dyani and Moholo-Moholo, the only original Blue Note still alive and working. <\/p>\n