南ア出身の白人ピアニスト、故Chris McGregor 率いるビッグバンド、Brotherfood Of Breath のファースト(Deram)とセカンド(RCA)の二作が英国フォーク再発？レーベルである FLEDG'LING からリマスターＣＤで再発。ファーストは、伊AkarmaからＬＰ＆ＣＤ再発済だが、セカンドは初のリイッシューではないか。両作ともオリジナルＬＰは高値（特にファースト）でコンディションの良い盤の入手が次第に困難となっているので、時宜にかなった再発と思われる。
南アのリズムであるクウェラをベースとしたクリスらのサウンドはまちがいなく今日に至る英国モダンジャズに大きな影響を与えている一大潮流。未聴の方にはぜひ聴いて頂きたい。
Chris McGregor "Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath" (FLEDG'LING FLED 3062CD)
"Fledg'ling Records proudly present the long-overdue release on CD of a classic title from 1971 by Chris McGregor's magnificent big band -- Brotherhood Of Breath. Arguably one of the most influential albums to emerge from the London jazz scene of the early 1970s. The Brotherhood of Breath was an exuberant big-band created by South African born pianist and composer Chris McGregor. In South Africa, McGregor had formed the racially mixed Blue Notes in the early 1960's. By 1964, finding it very difficult to work at home, they left for Europe, finally settling in London in 1966. The Blue Notes -- Chris McGregor, Dudu Pukwana, Mongezi Feza, Johnny Dyani and Louis Moholo -- made a huge impact on London's jazz scene and befriended many in London's emerging avant-garde jazz community. The Brotherhood Of Breath was essentially the expatriate Blue Notes augmented by a large number of their friends from the British jazz community. The ensemble played an energetic mixture of Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Sun Ra but retained a unique feel due to the South African influences and the intelligent arrangements. McGregor dreamed of keeping the band together 'not as an institution, but as a community.' Unfortunately the economics of touring with such a large ensemble made that impossible. The group with a varying line-up continued to perform and record sporadically until McGregor's untimely death in May 1990."
Chris McGregor "Brotherhood" (FLEDG'LING FLED 3063CD)
"The long-overdue release on CD of Brotherhood -- a classic title from 1972 by Chris McGregor's magnificent big band Brotherhood Of Breath. Never before officially reissued this wonderful album continues the ground-breaking music of their debut album. Mighty music for the head, the heart and the feet." The Brotherhood of Breath is the kind of band you want to tell people about. It's not for private enjoyment, or for worship by a elitist cult. The Brotherhood's music is for sharing with the world, and that's what makes its name so apt: the musicians and the audience are brothers (and sisters), and they share the same breath, becoming merely parts of the same giant metabolism. Chris McGregor came out of South Africa in 1964, leading a band called the Blue Notes. Three of those Blue Notes can be heard on this record, and the fact that Mongezi Feza, Dudu Pukwana and Louis Moholo are still with Chris is some tribute to the fantastic empathy they share, both personally and in the music they make together. -- From Richard Williams contemporary sleeve note.
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