Mbambisa, Tete

Tete's Big Sound

Repress! A highly regarded 1976 Cape jazz LP by (South African) jazz musician Tete Mbambisa gets reissued on 180-GRAM VINYL, including an obi. The sound that Mbambisa carved in this period was wholly acoustic, in a style that now is often loosely labelled spiritual jazz. The sound alludes to deep African textures and rhythms, but not without clear nods to American hard bop and modal jazz, sometimes edging toward free improvisation, more or less à la John Coltrane and Pharaoh Sanders.

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