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Artist: Sipho Gumede
Album: Down Freedom Avenue
Genre: South African Jazz, World Jazz
Label: Melt 2000 Blue Room
Released: 1995

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Track List

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1. Down Freedom Avenue
2. Country Side
3. Godfather Special
4. Ngiyabonga (Thanking You)
5. Song for Johnny Dyani
6. Please Don't Dance
7. Nozipho the Dancer
8. Hlabelela (Just Sing)
9. Village Lullabye
10. African Wedding

Album Reviews

Review: 

This album is the latest result of rich vein of music mined by the jazz fraternity of Durban that includes Darius Brubeck and Chris Merz of Counterculture. The album conveys the turbulence and pain of a nation straining to be reborn.

— CalabashMusic.com


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