Duke Makasi

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Duke Makasi (born November 21, 1941 in Port Elizabeth , Cape Province , † November 25, 1993 in Johannesburg ) was a South African jazz musician ( tenor saxophone ).

Career

Makasi led the Soul Jazzmen together with Tete Mbambisa , who recorded the album Inhlupenko in 1969 . Then he founded the fusion band Spirits Rejoice with Sipho Gumede and Bheki Mseleku in the 1970s , which released two albums and was very successful with the Paradise Song . He also played with Jabu Nkosi, Barney Rachabane , Dennis Mpale, Gumede and Enoch Mtlelane in the band Roots . He later toured with Darius Brubeck .

With Johnny Fourie and Carlo Mombelli he formed the group Abstractions in 1985 , which released an album in 1987. He can also be heard on albums by Abdullah Ibrahim ( African Herbs , 1975; Soweto , 1978) and on Tete's Big Sound by Tete Mbambisa.

Discographic notes

  • Soul Jazzmen Inhlupenko Distress (City Special 1969, with Tete Mbambisa, Pych Big-T Ntsele, Mafufu Jama)
  • Spirits Rejoice African Spaces (Atlantic 1977, with George Tjefumani, Temba Mehlomakulu, Mervyn Africa , Russell Herman , Sipho Gumede, Gilbert Matthews )
  • Abstractions On the Other Side , (Shifty Records, 1987 with Johnny Fourie, Jo Runde, Carlo Mombelli, Neill Ettridge)
  • The Brothers Xhosa Nostra (Roots Records 1990, with Ezra Ngcukana , Tete Mbambisa, Victor Ntoni , Lulu Gontsana)
  • Mike Makhalemele, Duke Makasi, Barney Rachabane, René McLean , Winston Ngozi , Robbie Jansen African Summit (Kaz 1995)

literature

  • Gwen Ansell Soweto Blues: Jazz, Popular Music, and Politics in South Africa New York; London: Continuum 2004; ISBN 9780826416629

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Musicians database (Radio Swiss Jazz)
  2. ↑ Jürgen Schadeberg Jazz, Blues & Swing: Six Decades of Music in South Africa David Philip Publishers 2007, p. 78
personal data
SURNAME Makasi, Duke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African jazz musician (tenor saxophone)
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Port Elizabeth , Cape Province
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1993
Place of death Johannesburg