Keeping Time 1964-1974 – The Photographs and Cape Town Jazz Recordings of Ian Bruce Huntley
You are invited to get this book while you can. Keeping Time celebrates the public emergence of an extraordinary visual and audio archive begun by Ian Bruce Huntley in Cape Town fifty years ago.
This limited edition run of 500 opens a window to a little known era of South Africa’s music history, documenting a generation of jazz musicians in 120 selected and carefully restored colour and black and white images. Ian’s pictures and 56 hours of audio recordings capture an ‘underground’ jazz scene that persisted in creative defiance of all that grand apartheid threw at it. Many of the photographed live performances are indexed in this book and all will soon become available for free download through Electric Jive.
A handful of the musicians Ian Huntley worked with are still alive today. Some had few opportunities to record commercially – whilst others remain woefully under-documented. Combined with the loss to exile of yet more key people in South Africa’s jazz history, and the few previously accessible recordings from these times, there is a deficit in our historical understanding and resources.
The new found accessibility of this previously hidden archive gives lovers of South African music, scholars, musicians, artists, anyone who is fascinated with the achievements of a generation of South African jazz musicians, a small but invaluable means towards maintaining memory and articulating lost stories.
Published by Chris Albertyn and Associates in partnership with Electric Jive, this cloth-bound hard-cover book is printed on high quality art paper and is being sold at the price it cost to produce. In addition to a biographical sketch of Ian Huntley, the book offers a substantial essay by Jonathan Eato, a full discography of all 56 hours of the recordings Ian made, and a comprehensive index.
South African artist Siemon Allen is responsible for the design and layout. Photographer Cedric Nunn has painstakingly restored the images.
Gestern in der Post und ein erstes Mal durchgeblättert … phantastische Photos, ein Fenster in eine vergangene Zeit, den Soundtrack dazu gibt es auch auf dem Electric Jive Blog.
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