Pinise Saul

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Pinise Saul (born December 31, 1941 in East London , South Africa ; † October 26, 2016 in London ) was a South African singer whom the Guardian described as the "Queen of Afro-Jazz ".

Live and act

Saul first worked from 1957 in Tete Mbambisa's vocal group Four Yanks , with which it came to the first recordings. In 1963 she sang in the musical Xapa Goes to Town ; the following year she replaced Letta Mbulu on the show Back in Your Own Backyard and performed at the Castle Lager Jazz Festival .

She continued working as a singer in South Africa before going into exile in 1975 with the musical Iphi-Ntombi . She performed in Boston with Bob Marley and Patti LaBelle before moving to the UK. Since 1981 she has been a member of Dudu Pukwana's band Zila , with whom she also regularly toured Germany. She was also a member of Trevor Watts Moire Music . She was also heard with Julian Bahulas Jabula and with the Brotherhood of Breath . In 2001 she performed with David Murray's M'Bizo project and the World Saxophone Quartet at the Moers Festival . Together with Lucky Ranku she led the band Township Express and the South African Gospel Singers . She was also one of the African Jazz Allstars and performed with Adam Glasser and the Township Comets . Occasionally she made guest appearances in South Africa after the end of apartheid . Pinise Saul died of cancer in 2016.

Denise Mpale dedicated the song Pinise's Dance to her in 1968 (on the album I Remember Nick ). It is the subject of the documentary Roots Calling by Mark Kaplan, which was shown on South African television and at the Commonwealth Film Festival in 2004.

Discographic notes

  • Dudu Pukwana Life in Bracknell & Willisau (Jika Records, 1983)
  • Dudu Pukwana Zila '86 (Jika Records, 1986)
  • Chris McGregor and the South African Exiles Thunderbolt (PAM, 1986, with Pukwana, Ranku, Johnny Dyani , Harry Beckett , Ernest Mothle , Gilbert Matthews )
  • John Stevens Fast Color. Suite for Johnny Mbizo Dyani (with Pukwana, Evan Parker , Harry Beckett, Annie Whitehead , Nick Stephens, 1988)
  • Canaille 91 - Festival for Improvised Music in Frankfurt aM (1991)
  • South African Friends Sangena: We Are Coming In - Live au Petit Faucheux (ADDA 1992, with Ranku, Mike Rose, Phil Scragg, Roland Perrin, Victor Starkey)
  • Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath The Memorial Concert (ITM Records, 1993)
  • Township Express Fishbone (Jika Records, 1998)
  • Adam Glasser Mzansi (Sunnyside Communications 2014, with Jason Yarde , Alec Dankworth and others)

Web links

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b RIP Pinise Saul (1941–2016) . London Jazz News, October 27, 2016, accessed October 29, 2016
  2. ↑ Jazz Queen Saul to be Laid to Rest ( Memento from November 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) SABC, November 12, 2016
  3. ↑ after The Guardian 1944 cf. Pinise Saul Obituary: Jazz Singer and Fighter against Apartheid The Guardian November 10, 2016
  4. ^ A b Brian Moyo: Death of legendary SA singer Pinise Saul stuns fans and fellow musicians. teambuntuafrica.co.za, October 27, 2016, accessed October 30, 2016.
  5. ↑ a b c d e Queen of African jazz Pinise Saul returns
  6. ↑ Documented on the compilation album Township Jazz 'N' Jive .
  7. ↑ Max Mojapelo et al. a. Beyond Memory: Recording the History, Moments and Memories of South African Music 2009, p. 282
  8. ↑ Roots Calling! - Film on SA musicians in UK South African Music, March 11, 2004, accessed October 29, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Saul, Pinise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African jazz singer
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH East London (South Africa)
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 2016
Place of death London