Remembering the Blue Notes: South Africa’s first generation of free jazz by Gwen Ansell, 11 September 2017
… [we] flocked together.” He’s talking about the Blue Notes, a multiracial modern jazz outfit formed in Cape Town … of operating in such a climate were corrosive. The Blue Notes left South Africa in 1964 for an engagement at the … Meanwhile, the recordings and achievements of the Blue Notes remained obscure in South Africa, while they are …