Sold Date: May 7, 2020
Start Date: April 30, 2020
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CHRIS MCGREGOR'S BROTHERHOOD OF BREATH 

180 GRAM VINYL LP - LIMITED EDITION  - NUMBERED 14/500  - NEW & UNPLAYED.

CATALOGUE NUMBER STAMPLP1005

STAMFORD AUDIO PROUDLY PRESENT A LONG-OVERDUE 180 GRAM VINYL AUDIOPHILE RELEASE OF A CLASSIC TITLE FROM 1971 BY CHRIS MCGREGOR'S MAGNIFICENT BIG BAND ~ BROTHERHOOD OF BREATH. ARGUABLY ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL ALBUMS TO EMERGE FROM THE LONDON JAZZ SCENE OF THE EARLY 1970S.

THE BROTHERHOOD OF BREATH WAS AN EXUBERANT BIG-BAND CREATED BY SOUTH AFRICAN BORN PIANIST AND COMPOSER CHRIS MCGREGOR. IN SOUTH AFRICA, MCGREGOR HAD FORMED THE RACIALLY MIXED BLUE NOTES IN THE EARLY 1960S.BY 1964, FINDING IT VERY DIFFICULT TO WORK AT HOME, THEY LEFT FOR EUROPE, FINALLY SETTLING IN LONDON IN 1966. THE BLUE NOTES - CHRIS MCGREGOR, DUDU PUKWANA, MONGEZI FEZA, JOHNNY DYANI AND LOUIS MOHOLO MADE A HUGE IMPACT ON LONDON'S JAZZ SCENE AND BEFRIENDED MANY IN LONDON'S EMERGING AVANT-GARDE JAZZ COMMUNITY. THE BROTHERHOOD OF BREATH WAS ESSENTIALLY THE EXPATRIATE BLUE NOTES AUGMENTED BY A LARGE NUMBER OF THEIR FRIENDS FROM THE BRITISH JAZZ COMMUNITY.