Dudu Pukwana: Night Time Is the Right Time | Jazz review

(Cadillac)Dudu Pukwana, the alto saxophonist who moved to Britain in the 60s to escape South African apartheid, was one of the most original jazz improvisers ever to erupt over the UK scene, and his early death in 1990 was one of its great unsung losses. These just-unearthed recordings from all-night jams in the original Ronnie Scott's Club in Chinatown in 1967 and 68 would intrigue the jazz-scholarly simply for reflecting the club's crucial importance as an open-door workshop and informal co...

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