New - Assagai - Self Titled - LP

Description

Reissue, originally released in 1971. South-African jazz-rock worshippers alert!
Assagai was an Afro-rock band, active in the early 1970s in London, whose relatively short career produced two albums recorded in 1971. It has been described as “”the second best-known African group of the late ”60s/early ”70s in Britain“” after
Osibisa. The original band consisted of five members, three from South Africa and two from Nigeria: drummer
Louis Moholo, trumpeter/flautist
Mongezi Feza, alto saxophonist
Dudu Pukwana, tenor saxophonist
Bizo Mngqikana, and guitarist/bassist
Fred Coker Assagai”s self-titled debut album was released in 1971 on Vertigo; among the African musicians who played with the group on the recording was
Terri Quaye. Previously, in the 1960s Pukwana, Feza, and Moholo had been members of the jazz band
The Blue Notes alongside
Chris McGregor.