The Jazz Epistles – Jazz Epistle Verse 1

The Jazz Epistles, with Dollar Brand (later Abdullah Ibrahim), Hugh Masekela, Kippie Moeketsi, Jonas Gwangwa, Johnny Gertze and Makaya Ntshoko, made this in early 1960, usually cited as the first modern jazz LP by Black South African musicians. Soon after, the Sharpeville massacre and the crackdown that followed drove most of them into exile. The sextet plays sharp, bebop-influenced arrangements as a real band.