{"id":94728,"date":"2021-12-15T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/mankunku-yakhal-inkomo\/"},"modified":"2021-12-15T12:36:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T11:36:25","slug":"mankunku-yakhal-inkomo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/mankunku-yakhal-inkomo\/","title":{"rendered":"Mankunku : “The Bellowing Bull” bellows again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

1450 euros. That was the price for the sole copy of the record available on Discogs<\/a>, recorded in 1968 for World Record. A nice round number. It\u2019s an understatement to say that this album has long been sought-after by jazz lovers who know its quality, regardless of speculators. Thankfully Mr. Bongo<\/a> has reissued this rarity which has already been reissued in the past, notably by Jazzman and Gallo four years ago. Each time, the album sells out and the price soars. Now, in 2021, people can finally buy it at a reasonable price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to explain such a phenomenon? The limited pressed copies of the original album produced during Apartheid, of course. The music on the album, certainly. Two sides of an LP and four compositions : the recording is one of the best examples of the jazz produced in South Africa at the time. The native of Retreat (born in 1943), a suburb of Cape Town, was not alone of course (from Dudu Pukwana to Abdullah Ibrahim, Mongezi Feza to Johnny Dyani, Pat Matshikiza to Phil Tabane, there were many highly-talented jazzmen to arrive on the scene in South Africa), but Winston Monwabisi Ngozi emerged as the leading disciple of John Coltrane, whose shadow looms over this album recorded almost exactly one year to the day after the death of the jazz messiah. A composition is dedicated to him (“Dedication to Daddy Trane and Brother Shorter”), which sounds like a good compromise between Coltrane\u2019s Prestige and Impulse ! albums, and one tune, “Bessie\u2019s Blues”, is borrowed from his repertoire (played with a more “basic” approach to the changes).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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