Brotherhood by Chris McGregor's Brotherhood Of Breath, released on RCA in 1972

Fifty years ago Pete Gamble thought the Brotherhood's second album got closer to the impossibility of reproducing the effect of the live band. First published in Jazz Journal July 1972

While I don’t think that the true es­sence of the Brotherhood will ever be captured on disc, this their second al­bum goes a long way toward reproduc­ing the live article. The fact that Chris produced this one himself is almost certainly the reason why.

Side I shows the two sides of the band. Nick Tete, composed by Dudu Pukwana, has a simple repetitive theme, a wailing typical solo from Mr. P., and some excellent drumming from Moholo in the driving seat...

https://jazzjournal.co.uk/2022/07/27/jj-07-72-chris-mcgregors-brotherhood-of-breath-brotherhood/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CovVJ5ZyLD4&list=OLAK5uy_mPoEwEWUlf58mixZM4muONvc_lvm23Bss

#ChrisMcGregor #BrotherhoodOfBreath #Jazz #BigBand #FreeJazz #SouthAfricanJazz #Music #DuduPukwana #MikeOsborne #HarryMiller #LouisMoholo #GaryWindo #AlanSkidmore #BritJazz #HarryBeckett #MarcCharig #MongeziFeza

Ended Tuesday and welcomed wednesday with Pipedream by Mark Charig With Keith Tippett and Ann Winter, released on Ogun in 1977.

Marcello Carlin wrote on his Ogun label blog (link below):

Charig is best known for his work in Keith Tippett's sundry groups and the Tippett-adjacent models of Soft Machine and King Crimson, as well as the Brotherhood of Breath and its various offshoots ; he has also been one of the core members of the London Jazz Composers' Orchestra for over half a century. ...he was a member of a hard Left jazz-rock agitprop band named Redbrass, whose personnel briefly included a young singer named Annie Lennox. Yet Pipedream is one of only a very few records to be issued under his name..

Pipedream, however, is a major statement. Wanting to get away from That London, Charig and Tippett drove to ..Bristol..

https://ogunrecords.blogspot.com/2025/04/mark-charig-pipedream.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fVKd4gSI1U&list=RD_fVKd4gSI1U&start_radio=1

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#NP: #NowPlaying:

The Keith Tippett Group - 'How Long This Time? Live 1970' (2022)

#KeithTippettGroup: #KeithTippett, #EltonDean, #MarcCharig, #NickEvans, #RoyBabbington ao. Beautiful melodies exist next to abstract, atonal material. Awesome, awesome.