Blue Stompin', by Kippie Moketsi feat. Hal Singer

Blue Stompin'

by Kippie Moketsi feat. Hal Singer

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Reissue of Kippie Moketsi and Hal Singer’s collaborative album, Blue Stompin’. This release is in partnership with the legendary As-Shams/The Sun Records. Remastered by Noah Mintz at Lacquer Channel Mastering. Artwork and text restoration by Steve Lewin.

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	1.	Blue Stompin' 11:19
	2.	Hang On There 06:39
	3.	Scrap Iron 10:53
	4.	Yes Baby 12:38

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Blue Stompin’, originally released on Rashid Vally’s As-Shams/The Sun label in South Africa in July 1977, is a tour-de-force meeting of two seemingly unlikely saxophone collaborators. Kippie ‘Morolong’ Moeketsi was a founder member of The Jazz Epistles, along with Abdullah Ibrahim (or Dollar Brand as he was known then), Jonas Gwangwa, and Hugh Masekela. Hal Singer was a veteran of Duke Ellington’s orchestra as well as stints with Roy Eldridge, Coleman Hawkins, Jay McShann and Don Byas in the Be-bop era. In 1965, he emigrated to France and joined the sizeable contingent of Afro-American Jazz ex-pats who had made Paris their home. He is probably best known now for his 1969 Polydor album “Paris Soul Food”, on the back of which he toured extensively throughout Europe. In 1974 he went on a U.S. State Department-sponsored tour of South Africa, which was the genesis for the 1977 Blue Stompin’ release; a 1974 session featuring Singer and Moeketsi which re-worked the title track of Singer's 1959 Prestige album with Charlie Shavers, (Blue Stompin' - Prestige 7153) as a bluesy workout with R&B overtones, but this time incorporating Moeketsi taking the place of Charlie Shavers in trading lively solos. Spirited covers of "Scrap Iron' by Charles Hodges, 'Hang On In There' by Duke Pearson and 'Yes Baby' by Kenny Burrell round out this straight-ahead set, albeit with a decidedly South African flavour.

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released July 22, 2021

Personnel on Track 1:
Hal Singer - Tenor Sax
Kippie Moeketsi - Alto Sax
Oliver Johnson - Drums
August "Gus" Nemeth - Bass
Alain Jean Marie - Piano

Personnel on Track 2:
Kippie Moeketsi - Alto Sax
Duku Makasi - Tenor Sax
Pat Matshikiza - Piano
Sipho Gumede - Bass
Gilbert Mathews - Drums

Personnel on Tracks 3, 4:
Kippie Moeketsi - Alto Sax
Barney Rachabane - Alto Sax
Duku Makasi - Tenor Sax
Jabu Nkosi - Piano
Enock Mthaleni - Guitar
Sipho Gumede - Bass
Gilbert Mathews - Drums

Produced by Rashid Vally
Cat. No. GL 1912
Original Release 1977
We Are Busy Bodies Reissue 2021

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As-Shams Archive Series Johannesburg, South Africa

Archival series from the classic South African jazz label As-Shams/The Sun featuring works by Kippie Moketsi, Basil Coetzee, Pat Matshikiza and Lionel Pillay.

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