Canto General
Canto General Quintett
Canto General Quintett was born to give voice to the great “South-African Sound“ with compositions by: Dudu Pukwana, Mongezi Feza, Johnny Dyani, Harry Miller, Louis Moholo, Chris McGregor and some others fled in the seventies from South-Africa to join England. In that period – as we know – there was the Apartheid in South-Africa and Nelson Mandela was imprisoned.
Except for Louis Moholo – great soul and last witness of that extraordinary and fertile African jazz season and occasional special guest of this group, all other musiciens came from South-Africa died untimely. All compositions proprose so contents of love, beauty, joy, rage that this music still alive and dramatically real in its universal cry still contains.
Louis “Tebugo” Moholo-Moholo: drums
Pino Minafra: trumpet, flugelhorn
Roberto Ottaviano: alto and soprano sax
Roberto Bellatalla: doublebass
Livio Minafra: piano
Repertoire:
Orange Grove, Mofolo (H. Miller), Angel Nomali, Blues for Nick (D. Pukwana), Dedicated to Mingus, A Song, Thoughts to Geoff (K. Tippett), Seven for Lee, Out of bounds (E. Dean), Sondela, You ain’t gonna know me ’cause you think you know me (M. Feza), (E. Dean), etc…
