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The Blue Notes
The Blue Notes were a South African jazz sextet, whose definitive line up featured Chris McGregor on piano, Mongezi Feza on trumpet, Dudu Pukwana on alto saxophone, Nikele Moyake on tenor saxophone, Johnny Dyani on bass, and Louis Moholo on drums. After moving away from their home country in 1964, they established themselves on the European jazz circuit, where they continued to play and record through the 1970s. They are now considered one of the great free jazz bands of their era, whose music was given a unique flavour by their integration of African styles such as Kwela into the progressive jazz ideas of the time.
== Early days ==
Although the band was initially based in Cape Town (five of the group's six members came from the Eastern Cape),〔("Chris Macgregor and the Blue Notes", Afribeat.com. )〕 they came to prominence at the 1963 National Jazz Festival in Johannesburg. An album recorded after the festival was released as ''Jazz – The African Sound'', but this was not a Blue Notes record ''per se'', it was rather an album featuring some of the Blue Notes in a big band put together by McGregor. This big band was intended to continue touring, but proved unworkable. Instead, The Blue Notes continued as a quintet, then sextet.
Remaining in Johannesburg, they established a residency at the city's ''Downbeat'' club, but returned to Cape Town to make their first studio recordings for the South African Broadcasting Corporation. These recordings were finally released in 2002 by the ''Proper Music'' label, on a CD entitled ''Township Bop''. It showed the band to be playing in a relatively straight ahead bebop style compared with their later work, also tracing the coming together of the definitive sextet. On the earliest sessions, only three members of the definitive line up (McGregor, Pukwana and Moyake) were present. By the time of the last sessions, Feza, Dyani and Moholo were on board.
Like fellow South African jazz musicians Dollar Brand and Hugh Masekela, they understood that the only way they could play freely was by escaping the oppressive social and political climate of their home country. As a mixed race band (McGregor the sole white member), they were especially prone to police harassment. In mid 1964, they left South Africa.
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