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Christopher McGregor (24 December 1936 – 26 May 1990) was a South African jazz pianist, bandleader and composer born in Somerset West, South Africa. [1] Early influences. McGregor grew up in the then Transkei (now part of the Eastern Cape Province ), [2] where his father was headmaster at a Church of Scotland mission institution called Blythswood.
Chris McGregor (Somerset West, 24 dicembre 1936 – Agen, 26 maggio 1990) è stato un pianista, compositore e bandleader sudafricano di free jazz. Sfidò le leggi razziali del suo Paese formando con musicisti di colore i Blue Notes, un sestetto che miscelava la musica africana con il jazz americano.
30 ott 2009 · Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath - MRA
South African jazz pianist, composer and bandleader of the Blue Notes and Brotherhood of Breath. Born: December 24, 1936 in Umtata (or) in Somerset West, South Africa, as the son of a Scottish missionary. Died: May 26, 1990 in Ager, France.
27 ott 2016 · Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath rampaged through the British free jazz scene of the late '60s and early '70s, a loose big band/free orchestra built around a core South African unit that emigrated to London in 1966.
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-Moholo on drums.
30 lug 2012 · Chris McGregor (1936-1990) is best known as the pianist/leader of the Brotherhood of Breath and its small band antecedent the Blue Notes, the group that he formed in South Africa in 1963. The inter-racial band elected for a voluntary European exile from their homeland and its policies that would ban their very right to assemble.