ArtistInfo

Blue Notes

Band, FR
Jazz

South-african jazz combo founded in the early 1960s in Cape Town. As an interracial band in a country where apartheid ruled, they faced a lot of difficulties to play their music, so after an appearance at the 1964 Antibes Jazz Festival in France, the group decided to stay in Europe and the musicians eventually moved to London. Their activity as Blue Notes was then sporadic, they were eventually integrated into the jazz scene of London and played with, and formed several other bands with local musicians, notably Chris McGregor's Brotherhood Of Breath.

Members

	Mongezi Feza tr, cor 1945-1975 ZA
	Chris McGregor p 1936-1990 ZA
	Louis Moholo dr *1940 ZA
	Johnny Dyani b, voc 1945-1986 ZA
	Dennis Mpale tr
	Dudu Pukwana as 1938-1990 ZA
	Nick Moyake ts
	Tete Mbambisa p
	Early Mabuza dr ZA