{"id":3131,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/africa-straight-ahead\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"africa-straight-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=3131","title":{"rendered":"Africa Straight Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\">  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/Africa_Beats_Logo.gif\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"80\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/africastraightahead.jpg\" alt=\"Africa Straight Ahead\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" align=\"left\"\/><font size=\"4\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:18px\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">Africa Straight Ahead<\/font><font size=\"3\" face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-size:16px:\" color=\"Blue\"><br \/>A Collection of Africa&#8217;s Finest<\/font><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"1\"><br \/><font size=\"1\" face=\"verdana\" style=\"font-size:11px\">(Heads Up &#8211; 2003)<br \/> by Sidney Bechet-Mandela <br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\" color=\"black\" style=\"font=size:13px:\">    Scheduled to coincide with the historic ten year anniversary of the end of apartheid, <i>Africa Straight Ahead<\/i> spotlights some of South Africa&#8217;s leading jazz musicians playing their own compositions.   This is the latest recording in the Heads Up Africa series and it continues to expand on the theme. Combining hard bop, swing and soul with the essence of Africa, this CD includes some of Africa&#8217;s most noted jazz musicians jammin&#8217; like the sun was about to come up! <\/p>\n<p><u>The players:<\/u> Darius Brubeck &amp; Afro Cool Concept, Hotep Idris Galeta, Paul Hanmer, Moses Khumalo, McCoy Mrubata, Bheki Mseleku, Andy Narell, Zim Ngqawana, The Sheer All Stars, Voice and Marcus Wyatt.<\/p>\n<p><u>The result:<\/u> One hell of an album. Straight out of the nightclub and into your room, this is sweet jazz at it&#8217;s free-grooving best.  <\/p>\n<p>    &#8220;These artists have been through so much since the dark days of apartheid, but their music is full of beauty and joy,&#8221; says Dave Love, president of Heads Up and creator of the Heads Up Africa series. Kudos to Love for having the vision and daring to bring us this remarkable series. The cover art features an African illustration by Frank Morrison.  <!---     <br \/>  <font style=\"FONT-SIZE:10px;\"  face=verdana><b>Africa Beats<\/b> is brought to you each month courtesy of the <a Href=\"http:\/\/www.afribeat.com\">Afri-Beat Web Site<\/a>.<\/font>  \n\n<table width=\"100%\" bgcolor=\"black\">\n\n<tr>\n\n<td align=middle><font face=verdana color=white size=2>Visit the Afri-Beat Web Site and enter the world of African music.<br \/>  <a Href=\"http:\/\/www.afribeat.com\"><img height=100 alt=AfriBeat SRC=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/afribeat_logo.gif\" width=140 align=center border=0><\/a><br \/>http:\/\/www.afribeat.com<\/font><\/td>\n\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/table>\n\n     ---><cfinclude template=\"adbanner.asp\"><\/p>\n<p\/><?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><!--#include file=_back.inc--><\/cfinclude><\/font>  <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/font><\/div>\n<p><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Straight AheadA Collection of Africa&#8217;s Finest(Heads Up &#8211; 2003)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}