Basil Mannenberg Coetzee - Shrimp Boats LP
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Basil Mannenberg Coetzee - Shrimp Boats LP
2235 Fern Street
Pickup currently unavailable
2235 Fern Street
San Diego CA 92104
United States
Some of the most soulful work we've ever heard from South African tenorist Basil Mannenberg Coetzee – served up here on an album that's split with fellow saxophonist Barney Rachabane! Side one features Coetzee stretching out on a really long track – a side-long reading of the classic "Shrimp Boats", but taken into very different territory as a longform solo vehicle – with work from a group that also features Stompie Manana on tenor and Lionel Pillay on both keyboards and piano – players who also get plenty of room for solo space, next to the bass of Charles Johnstone and drums of Rod Clark. Side two has a different flavor – still with keyboards and piano from Pillay, but next to alto work from Barney Rachabane, a player who's almost got some Hank Crawford elements in his sound – working alongside Duku Makasi on tenor, Sipho Gumede on bass, and Gilbert Mathews on drums. Titles include a remake of the South African jazz classic "Yakal Inkomo" – plus "Slow Blues For Orial" and the Weather Report tune "Birdland".