Loose Tubes: Sad Afrika – review

(Lost Marble) Two years ago, Django Bates' Lost Marble label released Dancing on Frith Street – a previously undiscovered 1990 live recording from the shortlived but very influential young British big band Loose Tubes. Sad Afrika (dedicated to Nelson Mandela and London's South African jazz exiles of the time) was recorded over three nights at Ronnie Scott's during the same September season. Bates' title track – a blend of brass fanfares and vocal chanting that becomes a frolicking penny-wh...

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