The Blue Notes: Blue Notes for Johnny - VINYL LP

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Management number 205572400 Release Date 2025/10/22 List Price $107.20 Model Number 205572400
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Title: Blue Notes for Johnny
Artist: The Blue Notes
Label: Otoroku
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 5056321658937
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2022-10-21
Number of Discs: 1

Vinyl LP pressing. Otoroku is proud to present the first vinyl reissue of Blue Notes For Johnny - a defining statement by one of the greatest ensembles in the history of jazz. Recorded in mid-1987 by Blue Notes - then reduced to the trio of Dudu Pukwana on alto sax, Louis Moholo-Moholo on drums and Chris McGregor on piano - it encounters the band 25 years after their founding embarking on an inward meditation through collective music making dedicated to Johnny Dyani, their former bandmate and friend. Blue Notes For Johnny, the group's second musical memorial to a band member, incorporates a considerably broader range of touchstone and practices than it's predecessor, nodding toward the band's foundations in be-bop and post-bop without abandoning where they had journeyed along the way. Internalizing equal elements of hard-bop, modalism, and free improvisation, it is a startling creative statement, imbued with a tension that renders an equally radical and sophisticated challenge; a furious tide - slow in pace and it slow to reveal itself - masquerading in gentler forms. Blue Notes For Johnny's memorialization is unwittingly doubled by capturing the final time that The Blue Notes would come together in the studio. Both Dudu Pukwana and Chris McGregor would pass away three years later in 1990, leaving Moholo-Moholo - who continues to carve a groundbreaking trajectory across the world of jazz - as the last surviving member. The album remains as a journey between an imagined future and the beginning of it all. Six friends meeting and communing through sound. Six friends who had triumphed against the odds, becoming some of the greatest creative voices of their generation. Six friends who were five, then four, and then three, before they were done. Friends who never failed, in whatever form, to come together and play. It is a story begun 60 years ago that remains just as prescient today.

Tracks:
1.1 Funk Dem Dudu > To Erico
1.2 Eyomzi
1.3 Ntyilo Ntyilo
1.4 Blues For Nick
1.5 Monks ; Mbizo
1.6 Ithi Gqi > Nkosi Sikelele L'Afrika

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