WFMU RADIO: Give The Drummer Some 07/27/18

Listener comments!

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7:58am dutchtheo:

ahoy from the hot banks of the dutch delta, 97 ℉

8:00am Doug Schulkind:

Ugh! It was streamy in London a couple of weeks ago, and roasting in Athens (but that is not so unusual).

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8:01am dutchtheo:

even my sense of time is off

8:04am Doug Schulkind:

Take your brain out and put it in the cooler. That works for me.

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8:07am dutchtheo:

no-brainer...

8:19am annie:

welcome home, Drummer; it's good to have you back.

8:19am Doug Schulkind:

Thanks, annie! Thrilled to be back.

8:42am Uncle Michael:

Welcome home, Doug.

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8:43am Brian in UK:

Who is that bronzed Adonis. Oh, I am looking in the mirror, must stop kissing it.

8:45am Doug Schulkind:

Thank you, brother uncle!

Good afternoon, Adonis in UK!

8:46am annie:

might be just me, but the pop-up produces no sound. and yes, my speaker jack is plugged in

8:47am Uncle Michael:

works here, annie

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8:48am Brian in UK:

Annie, seems OK here.

8:49am annie:

hhmmm...
it seems that the Play action does not work

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8:49am Brian in UK:

A reboot?

8:50am annie:

well, i just updated firefox and maybe i have to check some settings. i'll just use tunein..

8:51am Doug Schulkind:

Pop-up, iPhone app and iTunes all working here.

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8:52am doctorjazz:

Welcome back, good to listen to some Friday drumming! I trust you're rested and feeling good after the vacation.

8:52am annie:

i'm pretty sure it's the FF update i have to adjust... i hope.

8:53am Doug Schulkind:

Hullo, docjazz! I would be better rested if my dog wasn't freaking out most of the night due to thunderstorms.

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8:57am duke:

Welcome back Doug

8:57am ausmanx:

i am a creature of habit and couldn't cope with those schedule changes, mr doug, so welcome back very much. though i am now about to head off to british climes myself (and still planning to head your way, brian)

8:57am Doug Schulkind:

Hiya, duke!

8:59am Doug Schulkind:

Greetings, ausmanx creature!

9:00am Goyim in the AM:

93 Fahrenheit and no air conditioning here where the Main meet the Rhein. Sweaty greetings to all!

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9:00am doctorjazz:

Looking forward to the show; I'm obsessed with Abdullah Ibrahim's music, but don't know much about other South African jazz.

9:02am Doug Schulkind:

@doctorjazz
Get a load of this quote from Abdullah Ibrahim:

“It was Kippie Moeketsi, the father of us all, an alto player, the first person who made us aware of the riches inside South Africa, who convinced me to devote my entire life to music.”

9:02am Doug Schulkind:

Welcome aboard, sweaty Goyim!

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9:03am dutchtheo:

wamukelekile welkom

9:05am Uncle Michael:

But did you do the Zorba?

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9:07am Brian in UK:

@ausmanx looking forward to seeing you.

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9:08am Brian in UK:

Uncle do you mean the sirtaki?

9:10am Doug Schulkind:

The composer of the music for Zorba the Greek, Mikis Theodorakis, was exiled to the island of Ikaria, along with 13,000 other poets, artists and communists during the Greek civil war.

9:10am Jeff g., on the LIRR:

And the world is back on its axis. Hi, Drummer, and Drummerites.

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9:12am Brian in UK:

Doug, Theodorakis is one of my heroes. The late Sixties in Greece when the colonels were is power was shocking.
A few years ago he seemed to be showing worrying racist tendences.

9:12am Doug Schulkind:

JGOTLIRR!

9:13am Doug Schulkind:

@Brian in UK
Ugh, that's the problem with having heroes.

9:13am Maggie B.:

Yer back!! Welcome back!

9:14am Doug Schulkind:

Gather ye children 'round for this Charley Lincoln number!

9:14am Doug Schulkind:

Hello dear Mother Maggie!

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9:15am Brian in UK:

Rough with the smooth.
As Jonathan Swift wrote in Gulliver's Travels. 'Nothing is great or small other than by comparison.'

9:16am ausmanx:

you northerners banging on about your 90 degree temperatures, get over it. it's the new normal, so our new normal down here should be 100+. looking forward to that. and in dean swift, you quote one of MY heroes, mr brian

9:17am Jeff g., on the LIRR:

<rant> I busted my hump trying to make the 9:05 train, sweating and running and biking and hustling all the way. Just made it for the last boarding call...and the train is still sitting here with the doors open, at 9:17. Meanwhile, this *never* is the case when I arrive at 9:06. THAT train is always long gone. .</rant>

9:17am thedunkel:

Good Morning Mr. Drummer!

9:17am Maggie B.:

are you all tan and rested now?

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9:19am Brian in UK:

Hello Jeff. It's FRIDAY.

9:19am Doug Schulkind:

@Maggie
I think you'd find my tan appealing. Or maybe just peeling.

9:19am Uncle Michael:

I sure wish comments allowed html, Jeff.

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9:21am Brian in UK:

Not heard 'busted my hump' since Roger McGuinn's first solo album.

9:21am Maggie B.:

were you guys at all effected by the wildfires?

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9:22am Brian in UK:

Doug, was Rembetika generally an urban music or did it reach the islands?

9:23am Doug Schulkind:

@Maggie
We flew out of Athens about half a day before the catastrophe.

9:24am Doug Schulkind:

@Brian in UK
There was a presence of a rembetika history on the island, but that may have been a retro thing and not an organic music from the early days.

9:25am wendy del formaggio:

Doug, I can't seem to find my grapefruit spoons. Oh right! That's because I don't own any! :-D

9:25am holland oats:

drumma! peoples! thing booters!

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9:25am sinner:

Were those Greek fires anywhere near the place y'all were?

9:25am Doug Schulkind:

Ho ho ho, it's HO!

9:27am melinda:

hi all!

9:27am Goyim in the AM:

@ausmanx: I am a transplanted Marylander, which means (as Doug can confirm) I am accustomed to hotter temperatures. But the Germanic fear of any moving air -- "voss dat a draft? CLOSE ALL VINDOWS IMMEDIATELY!" -- to say nothing of COOLED air makes the situation a different one.

9:27am ausmanx:

some of that greek stuff which was recorded early century by the greek migrants to NY was pretty amazing... who's the guy who documented and released a lot of it?

9:27am Doug Schulkind:

@sinner
Our flight out of Athens left Sunday evening. The fires descended starting Monday afternoon. They were as close as 25 kilometers to Athens.

9:27am burke:

You got me all excited about S. African jazz! No offense, Strothers.

9:27am Doug Schulkind:

Howdy, melinda!

9:29am Sem:

Greets, Doug, assembled schulkinder from hither and yon, undercover aliens, those passing as undercover aliens, the sprightly, the neo-codgers, and all.

9:29am Doug Schulkind:

@burke
You're in for a treat!

Hey-O, Sem!

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9:31am Brian in UK:

Was the fire an act of arson?

9:32am ausmanx:

ah, ian nagoski. canary-records.bandcamp.com... wonderful records

9:33am Doug Schulkind:

@Brian in UK
Nothing is confirmed, but many are saying that the fires are suspicious. There seem to have been a number of them that started simultaneously in different locations. Greece has a whole sordid history with arson. It's not pretty.

9:37am holland oats:

that straw better not be plastic

9:38am Goyim in the AM:

Yeah, forest arson for profit is a thing in Greece and has been for decades, sadly.

9:38am Sem:

Felt a shooter of "12" was a good palate cleanser, perhaps only because I'd had several before this realization struck me.

Bottom line: ouzo does not lead to good decisions, but does enhance the feeling of a Zorba the Greek experience.

9:40am ausmanx:

and i see you now live in the brown and pleasant land, brian... qz.com...

9:40am still b/p:

Happy to Greet the Drummer Some after his odyssey. Love to hear that Acropolis expectations were met and surpassed. Someday...one hopes.

9:44am Doug Schulkind:

@still b/p
Can't recommend it enough! And the people of Greece we interacted with were gracious, generous and warm. A heavenly place.

9:45am Doug Schulkind:

@Sem
Much card playing and ouzo drinking. Good clean fun!

9:47am Jeff g., on the LIRR:

Postscript: I seem to have boarded the wrong train, misreading the track numbers. Also, I'm an idiot. This music is helping me feel better about it, though.

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9:48am Brian in UK:

@ausmanx yes very dry. Rain promised later today. Farmer is harvesting his oil seed rape field across the way as speak/write/listen. Delete as appropriate.

Trying to set up music system whilst listening.

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9:49am Brian in UK:

@jeff lost train to San Fernando. Hope it has a buffet car and/or sleeper!!

9:49am Doug Schulkind:

Just as long as you're not a "useful idiot," Jeff. That is presidential territory.

9:49am Mark Hurst:

Enjoying the show today, thanks, Doug!

9:50am Doug Schulkind:

Good morning, Wendy DF!

9:53am annie:

long ago, i another time, ie the 70s, my brother was stationed in The Med and spent a lot of time around the greek islands. he loved it. his favorite story to relate was the existence of "Campfire Girls" as he called them, located across the beaches. hehe, i guess they've all grown up now.

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9:53am Brian in UK:

Cool Jazz?

9:54am Doug Schulkind:

So glad you're on board, Mark. Welcome!

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9:56am Artie:

Flavors of so many different musics, places, times, all through these Kippie recordings.

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9:57am Artie:

Delighted by your travels, Doug. And also that you're back.

9:57am Doug Schulkind:

@Artie
So much more territory to go. Buckle up! Also, HELLO!

9:58am Doug Schulkind:

I believe a scullery is a washroom or laundry room.

9:58am Doug Schulkind:

Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim) on piano here.

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9:59am Artie:

Scupper the thought!

10:00am holland oats:

ahem

10:00am Doug Schulkind:

Two alto saxes on this Gideon Nxumalo number. The other saxist is DUDU PUKWANA!!

10:01am burke:

I'm only familiar with skulduggery.

10:02am Doug Schulkind:

Give the Drummer Some, with Doug Scullery?

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10:02am Brian in UK:

Doug, it was also a song by Clifford T Ward.
www.google.co.uk...

10:02am Doug Schulkind:

Long may you scull, holland oats!

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10:04am Brian in UK:

This does sound like early Sixties jazz.

10:06am Jeff g., on the LIRR:

I've said it before and I'll say it again: if I had to pick one genre of music to listen to for the remainder my days, it might well be South Africam jazz.

10:07am holland oats:

expressway to yer scull?

10:07am Doug Schulkind:

That makes two of us, Jeff G.

10:08am Doug Schulkind:

The full story on this record, Jazz: The African Sound: www.flatinternational.org...

10:09am still b/p:

The Happy Launderer -- "Sculleryyy, scullerahhh..."
Weather channel says local humidity 88%; NWS says 76%. Pfah! Gonna hang washed sheets outdoors anyway.

10:12am Doug Schulkind:

@Brian in UK
The early '60s began in about 1957.

10:12am Doug Schulkind:

Kippie on clarinet here.

10:18am Mr C:

Burn baby burn! Doug was cookin' in Greece...

10:22am Doug Schulkind:

So nice to see you, Mr C!

10:24am Sem:

Diggin' this set, all new artists to me. Whee!

10:24am Doug Schulkind:

Finally, the wee-wee tapes, Sem.

10:26am holland oats:

wee the peeple

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10:27am Brian in UK:

Sem are you still planning a visit to our Scottish cousins?

Doug, I was secretly hoping to hear some Maria Farantouri.

10:32am Mr C:

Elizeth was the first outlet for Jobim in 1958..

10:34am Doug Schulkind:

One man's outlet is another's muse. A muselet.

10:43am Doug Schulkind:

Copious info about Kippie and a link for downloading this impossibly rare live performance from 1971 is here: electricjive.blogspot.com...

10:44am northguineahills:

huh, new to me!

10:48am Doug Schulkind:

Welcome welcome, northguineahills!

10:54am ndbob:

welcome back Doug - here for a few

10:55am northguineahills:

bienevidos, mis amigos!

10:56am Doug Schulkind:

Kippie playing Ornette. Amazing!

10:56am Sem:

Just returned from the tropical plantation which is the backyard garden. @BiUK: yes, planning a trip in October at present, but much up in the air, so no tickets purchased, and I've put off caber tossing lessons.

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10:57am duke:

This is great stuff

10:57am northguineahills:

@Doug: Glad you were in the Aegean isles, and not Attica (that went horrific).

10:58am Mr C:

I have a friend who played drums for John Mehegan while in college..

10:58am Doug Schulkind:

@NGH
We were in Athens for two days, then spent two weeks on the island of Ikaria. Flew out of Athens the night before the fires started.

10:59am Doug Schulkind:

Hugh Masakela on trumpet here.

10:59am Doug Schulkind:

@Mr C
Hooboy he must have some stories!

11:01am Mr C:

He was also the drummer with Fagan and Becker at Bard doing jazz gigs..

11:02am Doug Schulkind:

@Mr C
Hooboy he must have some other stories!

11:02am northguineahills:

I think I'd spend time in Mt Athos, Athens, Thessaloniki, and Rhodes if I ever went to Greece (although the missus isn't allowed in Mt Athos (ancient Greek Orthodox monastery).

11:03am frenchee:

Hiya Doug, welcome back! Just tuning in...

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11:03am doctorjazz:

Looked at Discogs, not lots of Kippie albums there...

11:04am holland oats:

beware condition, may be skippie

11:06am Doug Schulkind:

Hiya, frenchee! Oooh la-la!

11:07am Doug Schulkind:

@doctorjazz
Kippie never made a record under his own name.

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11:07am Artie:

peanut butter is a terrible record cleaning solution

11:07am annie:

wow, i soo went into a state of mesmerization over this.. wow..

11:08am Doug Schulkind:

Here is a very limited discography of records with Kippie: www.flatinternational.org...

11:08am ndbob:

Hi Annie!

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11:09am doctorjazz:

Here's the link to Discogs
www.discogs.com...

11:11am Doug Schulkind:

@Artie
Perfect for smuckering up your LPs.

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11:11am Brian in UK:

@Mr C guess he might have known Terence Boylan at Bard. B & F's first recording were backing him on his solo album, Alias Boona.

11:12am frenchee:

Y'all are punny today

11:17am Doug Schulkind:

My dear friends, never let someone punch a hole in your love.

11:19am annie:

hi ndbob!!!

11:19am holland oats:

hanging chad?

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11:20am dutchtheo:

punch intented

11:21am coelacanth∅:

'morning Doug and Drummers, and other Lovers

11:21am Doug Schulkind:

Yahoo, it's coelacanth∅!

11:22am coelacanth∅:

aw shucks

11:24am Doug Schulkind:

I love playing this Chuck & Mariann number during the marathon. It's so... togethery!

11:26am coelacanth∅:

did i miss entirely the Kippie tribute?
i can't say i was familiar with his name before yesterday.

11:27am coelacanth∅:

(wednesday actually)

11:27am Uncle Michael:

I hope you'll all join me at the top of the hour for a FULL THREE HOURS of Hinky Dinky Time. This week, I fed the squirrel.

www.wfmu.org...

11:28am ndbob:

welcome back Doug - and goodbye

11:29am holland oats:

you just kippie me hanging on

11:30am ndbob:

and excellent show of course!

11:30am Rich in Washington:

DOUG!

11:33am Doug Schulkind:

A pleasure to see you, ndbob! And you, too, RICH IN WA!

11:35am Doug Schulkind:

Hold onto your hearts, my dear listeners, or they may levitate out of sight. Some joy-drenched sounds in this last set.

11:37am Doug Schulkind:

Speaking of joy drenched, Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael is up next on the Drummer Stream. Grab a towel and listen!

PLAYLIST: wfmu.org...

11:38am coelacanth∅:

so apparently i'm learning the name of someone i've heard the music of for at least 35 years, 35 years after he died.

11:38am rw:

Howdy! Digging. Driving. Welcome back!

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11:38am doctorjazz:

Ahhh love this sound!

11:39am Doug Schulkind:

So happy to introduce you two, coelacanth∅!

Howdy, rw!

11:40am Doug Schulkind:

This song is named for Orlando, a portion of the township Soweto.

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11:41am doctorjazz:

Thanks Doug, welcome back to Ekaya, as Abdullah Ibrahim would say.

11:43am coelacanth∅:

Thank you Doug. i hate that though! i've always been such a geek - reading and retaining every spec of information on album covers since i was little; yet sometimes they still slip by.
...i wonder if any of the Hugh Masekela albums i've had since the mid 70s have Kippie on them. then it's more like 45 years.

11:43am northguineahills:

If only there was a wormhole in the one in FL so I could get there in secs....

11:44am Doug Schulkind:

Hey everyone, when you're done enjoying Hinky Dinky Time, head over to the WFMU mothership. DJ Monica is filling in for Sheila B, 3-6pm (ET)!!

11:46am Doug Schulkind:

@coelacanth∅
None of the records by Masakela as a leader. They played together plenty, but only before Hugh left South Africa. The key record to seek out is The Jazz Epistles - Jazz Epistle-Verse 1

11:48am coelacanth∅:

i was just reading about that! www.npr.org...
i bookmarked it for later. (i have to work soon) but Thanks. that's what i was wondering.

11:49am Doug Schulkind:

Yep, that's it! That's them!

11:49am coelacanth∅:

(somehow i got turned on to Masekela at a very young age)

11:51am coelacanth∅:

actually that article is great so far; but i should get Hugh's book,really.

11:52am Sem:

A fine morning of music. Thanks, and see you next time, DS.

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11:52am Brian in UK:

Doug, great to have you back (and you front). As ever an education.
Good luck with the job interview.

11:53am Doug Schulkind:

Trevor Rabin on keyboards here.

11:53am Doug Schulkind:

@Brian in UK
Thank you, Sir! I will think of you kissing the mirror for good luck.

11:53am Doug Schulkind:

Cheers to you, Sem!

11:54am Uncle Michael:

Thanks for coming home, Doug.

11:55am ?:

Hey, I just noticed that you played something by Allen Kwela -- I think I met a musician by that name once, years ago in NYC. Is that possible?

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11:56am Brian in UK:

Oh dear Dollard Brand is no dullard.

11:56am Doug Schulkind:

Dollar Brand gave Kippie the nickname "Bra Joe from Kilimanjaro" and would often introduce him that way on stage.

11:56am Jessie:

that was me asking about A Kwela. Still jet lagged.

11:57am Doug Schulkind:

@Question Mark
Kwela died in 2003. Some bio info here: www.music.org.za...

11:57am northguineahills:

enkosi, Doug!

11:58am Doug Schulkind:

Ah! ? = Jet Lagged Jessie!

My pleasure, NGH!

11:58am Jeff Golick:

Whoo, thanks, Doug.

11:58am northguineahills:

curious name, as he wasn't from Tanzania (or Kenya), or did I miss that bit about his bio....

11:58am Lewis:

Hi Doug et al. long time no see... Things are all topsy turvy here in Mpls...

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11:59am dutchtheo:

Thanks Doug!

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12:00pm Artie:

Thanks, Doug!

12:01pm coelacanth∅:

Thanks Doug! take care (and good luck? [...i didn't catch all that])

12:01pm burke:

See you next time. Thanks

12:03pm frenchee:

thanks for the Monica reminder, Doug!

Theme Music: Sarah Webster Fabio	Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues	Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues (Folkways 1976)
ECD	In Tempo	Major Force: The Original Art-Form (Mo' Wax 1990)

Walter Hawkins	Voice Throwin' Blues	b/w How Come Mama Blues (Paramount 1929)
Big Bill and Thomps	Starvation Blues	b/w Down in the Basement Blues (Paramount 1929)
Charley Lincoln	Doodle Hole Blues	b/w Mama Don't Rush Me (Columbia 1930)
Willie Brown	Future Blues	b/w M & O Blues (Champion 1930)
Bo Carter	What Kind of Scent Is This	b/w I've Got a Case of Mashin' It (Okeh 1931)
Booker T. Sapps	Boot That Thing	[Recorded by Zora Neale Hurston and John A. Lomax] (Library of Congress 1935)
Jimmie Strothers	Tennessee Dog	[Recorded by John A. Lomax] (Library of Congress 1936)
Peetie Wheatstraw	Working on the Project	b/w Would You Would You Mama (Decca 1937)
Louis Campbell	The Natural Facts	b/w Gotta Have You, Baby (Excello 1954)

Shanty City Seven	Unoya Kea [Where's He Going?]	(Gallotone 1953)
Africa's Hot Ten	Club 600	b/w Phansi Phezulu (Winner )
Kippie Moeketsi & His Hot Rocks	Bank Robber's Rock	b/w Stick Up Rock (Troubadour 1957)
Kippie Moeketsi with The Marabi Kings	Clarinet Kwela	b/w Goli Kwela (USA 1958)
The Jazz Epistles	Scullery Department	Jazz Epistle – Verse 1 (Continental 1960)
Gideon Nxumalo	Having a Ball	Jazz Fantastia (Renown 1962)
John Mehegan	Body and Soul	Jazz in Africa 1 (Continental 1959)
Chris McGregor & The Castle Lager Big Band	Kippie	Jazz: The African Sound (Gallo 1963)

Ângela Maria	Sempre O Luar	Presença de Ângela Maria (RCA Victor 1961)
Thelma Soares	Samba de Roda da Bahia	Thelma: Haunting New Voice From Brasil (Columbia 1967)
Célia	Na Boca do Sol	Célia (Continental 1972)
Simone	Paixão e Fé	Face a Face (EMI 1977)
Elizeth Cardoso	Luz e Esplendor	Luz e Esplendor (Arca 1986)
Margareth Menezes	Ifá Um Canto Pra Subir	Elegibo (Mango 1990)

Kippie Moeketsi	Turnaround	Live at the Cape Town Arts Centre (Ian Bruce Huntley Archives 1971)
John Mehegan	Angel Eyes	Jazz in Africa 2 (Continental 1959)
Pat Matshikiza & Kippie Moeketsi	Kippie's Prayer	Tshona! (The Sun 1975)

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Dee & Lola	Punch a Hole in Our Love	Atlanta to Birmingham (P-Vine )
Garnett Scott & Lani Groves	Sunset Strip	The Soulful Side of GME and Musette Records (Tramp )
Timmy Shaw & Little Melvin	Can't We Make This Love Last	b/w Get to Stepping (Premium 1968)
Marie Knight & Junior Lewis	Better Wait and See	The Arock & Sylvia Soul Story (Ace )
Chuck & Mariann	Let's Walk Down the Street Together	b/w Mariann: The Woman in Me (Abet 1968)

Allen Kwela	Quaphela	Black Beauty (Soweto 1975)
Dennis Mpale & Kippie Moeketsi	Orlando	Our Boys Are Doing It (Mercury 1975)
The Soul of the City	City Soul	City Soul and the Diagonal Street Blues (Jo'burg 1975)
Dollard Brand	Bra Joe from Kilimanjaro	Dollar Brand + 3 with Kippie Moeketsi (Soultown 1971)

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