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Formed in Pretoria, South Africa, in 1962, the original - and definitive - Malombo Jazz was a three-piece comprising guitarist Philip Tabane, flutist Abe Cindi and traditional drummer and percussionist Julian Bahula. The group’s repertoire drew heavily on the ancient folk music of South Africa’s Venda and Pedi peoples but was also used as an appropriate backdrop for Tabane’s exquisite jazz-based improvisations, which were capable of moving through every emotional area from the loud and lascivious to the pastoral and delicate. In a country long wracked by tribal rivalries, jazz had served since the 30s to unite various ethnic groups, and Malombo Jazz achieved much the same success in the 60s.

In 1964, the band won first prize at the prestigious Castle Lager Jazz Festival. Bahula and Cindi left Malombo in the late 60s to base themselves in London, where they formed the short-lived Malombo Jazzmen prior to Bahula setting up his own band, Jabula. Malombo’s line-up underwent numerous personnel changes in subsequent years, as Tabane strove to recapture the magic of the original trio. His first replacement for Bahula was Gabriel Thobejani, who later left to join fusion outfit Sakhile.

In 1981, Cindi briefly rejoined the band, and five years later Thobejani returned. In the late 80s, Tabane began leading an occasional big band, the Homeland Symphony Orchestra, reinterpreting Venda and Pedi folk music in jazz-influenced orchestral style. Tabane remained at the helm of Malombo Jazz into the new millennium, scratching a living on the live circuit, a situation was hardly deserving of one of South Africa’s great guitar heroes. (Source AllMusic.com)

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released August 5, 2020

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