Keith Tippett, Julie Tippetts, Louis Moholo-Moholo & Canto General - Viva La Black Live At Ruvo

Two gifted English pianist-composers, Django Bates and Keith Tippett, had their music profoundly changed by exposure to the work of the UK-based South African jazz exiles of the 1960s and 70s. That era's great Brotherhood of Breath big band has welcome reissues of its first two albums later in the month. On this 2004 live set, Keith Tippett directs Italy's Canto General Orchestra, his singer wife Julie, and the majestically thrilling South African drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo in reworkings of scores for the Dedication Orchestra tribute band, and Tippett's giant 1970s mixed-idiom ensemble Centipede. 

Dudu Pukwana's rousing Mra and Mongezi Feza's You Ain't Gonna Know Me 'Cos You Think You Know Me are highlights, and there's a raft of fine Tippett and Harry Miller pieces. The soloing is terrific (notably trumpeter Vito Mitoli's high-note overture to the polyrhythmic Mra, Felice Mezzina's grainy tenor sax on Tippett's hymn-like Song, and two vivid forays reminiscent of Elton Dean for Roberto Ottaviano's soprano), and You Ain't Gonna Know Me 'Cos You Think You Know Me always tingles the spine.

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