South African Blues

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10 жыл бұрын

80's documentary about the trials facing ex-patriate South African musicians based in the UK.
It was great discovering this tape and seeing my friends again.
Sadly all bar Jonas Gwangwa is still with us.
Featuring Churchill Jolobe, Princess Patience, Robbie Sithole, and Jonas Gwangwa.

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@JonasGwangwa 6 жыл бұрын

Churchill and I shared many memories together, he was more than a great musician and for some time while in exile, also had the role of surrogate father to two of my youngest children during their stay in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

@mphomasuku754 10 ай бұрын

RIP Mr Gwangwa.

@siyajolobe6991 8 жыл бұрын

who ever uploaded this i am so ever grateful. Churchill Jolobe is my dad and i am so happy to see him alive and happy in the video. once again thank you so much!!!

@DavidDefries 8 жыл бұрын

I never forget your Dad . We played together both with Dudu Pukwana , and Jonas Gwangwa. Of all the S.African exiles , he showed me the phrasing, as when I soloed, he would reply with an open heart from the drums, and my next phrase was based on his . He made us all happy too, in the band room, endless waiting at airports, these were my S African history and life lessons !

@Aydee58 8 жыл бұрын

Hi Lala. Churchill was a friend of mine and a musical companion. He was a source of inspiration and a wonderful spirit during his stay in London. Adrian

@realquirkyvideos1197 7 жыл бұрын

I just discovered your comment here Lala..!I knew your Dad and played with him in Dudu Pukwana's band.. we went to Europe together - please find me on FB x Adam Glasser

@skimanization 7 жыл бұрын

In all the musicians that I see in this video most of whom I either heard about or played with, Robert Sithole, the South African flutist is the one I would claim is an unsung South African flute hero. As a young musician in South Africa, playing saxophonist, he is the first one I graduated, after a lot of shedding, to play and tour with. In the 1960s he, Robert Sithole, was one of a tin-whistle hero playing the popular music that was called: "Kwela" - I heard that it was called by this name because the police, during the apartheid times would arrest the musicians and other local black people and tell them to get inside a very huge Van or lorry called in the townships "Kwela-kwela" because they didn't have or failed to produce a permit to be living in the urban areas which were designated for white people only in South Africa. Blacks, according to the apartheid legislation, belonged to the "bundus" or rural areas. Robert Sithole was a veteran of that era, harassed frequently, and never left South Africa until later in the 1980s. He is one of the most exploited great black South African musicians. I had a lot of respect for him because I learned a lot about music when I met and played with him. Later, in the 1990s I met Jonas Gwangwa, the great South African trombonist/composer, who I heard went to exile like the likes of Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba, etc., he mentored us in Johannesburg's Dorkay House, where I had the opportunity playing with him. I know their history was also tough under the white South African apartheid regime. I came to this documentary by chance and I'm very grateful because it tells our story as black South African musicians. I now live in the United Kingdom.

@Aydee58 10 жыл бұрын

The documentary was broadcast by the BBC in 1990. The director was Andy Metcalf and the producer was Silvia Davies.

@libadviser8793 2 жыл бұрын

I really appreciate such uploads. We heard a lot about these stories and now I get to see my countrymen and their struggles abroad.

@lindikaya 3 жыл бұрын

I have known and watched this doccie for a long time. It is the only one. I want to show others, this is 30 years old. I have known it

@sellobodibe5888 2 жыл бұрын

This is a missing link in the local musical landscape. Many of us who have followed and monitored the development of jazz as an artform from childhood are delighted to see this in the public forum.. Jazz was part and parcel of township culture and spirit. In Meadolands there were many commited jazz group like Jazz Klooks and Jazz Zionist that was led by Boggart Ngwasana a very gifted vibrophonist. The information on this group's is with the older generation and not easily accessible to the current generation. SABC should be having the information sitting in their library it only needs a researcher to bring it to the public.