Johnny M. Dyani - African Bass

2024

'I can play jazz, but first and foremost I play black music. We have a message. Louis Armstrong had it, Ellington had it and Gillespie has it. It can be political, sociological, economic, it can be about the good times or the bad times. It is our way of communicating. You don't have to read big books about a country or a people to know what they want. Listen to the music and you will know what they have to say'. Johnny M. Dyani

Johnny M. Dyani, bass, piano, voice
Clifford Jarvis, drums, voice

Recorded by Giancarlo Barigozzi at Barigozzi Studio, Milano, November 14, 1979
Executive producer, Sergio Veschi

Afrikan Anthem – Zulu (trad. arr. J. M. Dyani)
Afrikan Blues (J. M. Dyani)
Ithi-Gqi (J. M. Dyani)
Lonely Flowers (J. M. Dyani)
South Afrikan (trad. arr. J. M. Dyani)
The Robin Irland Struff (J. M. Dyani)