Kippie Moketski & Hal Singer- Blue Stompin'Label: We Are Busy Reissued 2021, Originally released 1977 Blue Stompin, originally released on Rashid Vallys As Shams The Sun label in South Africa in July 1977, is a tour de force meeting of two seemingly unlikely saxophone collaborators. Kippie Morolong Moeketsi was a founder member of The Jazz Epistles, along with Abdullah Ibrahim (or Dollar Brand as he was known then), Jonas Gwangwa, and Hugh Masekela. Hal Singer was a veteran of Duke Ellingtons

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Springtime will continue to sow their garden of auditory delights

the singer teamed with Japanese anime giants like writer/director Jumpei Mizusaki and character designer Takashi Okazaki

and of wisdom earned

this one revealed itself more slowly with each listen

Convening in Nashville for only six days after a year of relentlessly touring their New West Records debut Dying Surfer Meets His Maker

Through its intimate aesthetic analysis and raw

I Will Follow

As Tom Sanders delivers a syncopated vocal

If You Want Me

Both these singles reached number 1 in Canada on the RPM 100 national Top Singles Chart (as did the album itself)

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