Airport service in Mannenberg

“Mannenberg” is a Cape jazz manner by South African musician Abdullah Ibrahim, first recorded in 1974. Driven into exile by the apartheid government, Ibrahim had been vivacious in Europe and the United States during the 1960s and ’70s, making brief visits to South Africa to record music. After a flourishing 1974 collaboration behind producer Rashid Vally and a band that included Basil Coetzee and Robbie Jansen, Ibrahim began to cassette another album subsequently these three collaborators and a support band assembled by Coetzee. The aerate was recorded during a session of improvisation, and includes a saxophone solo by Coetzee, which led to him receiving the sobriquet “Manenberg”.

The fragment incorporates elements of several additional musical styles, including marabi, ticky-draai, and langarm, and became a landmark in the innovation of the genre of Cape jazz. The song has been described as having a beautiful manner and catchy beat, conveying themes of “freedom and cultural identity.” It was released below Ibrahim’s former publicize Dollar Brand upon the 1974 vinyl album Mannenberg – Is Where It’s Happening. Named after the township of Manenberg, it was an instant hit, selling tens of thousands of copies within a few months of its release. It well along became identified past the struggle against apartheid, partly due to Jansen and Coetzee playing it at rallies next to the government, and was accompanied by the movement’s most popular songs in the 1980s. The fragment has been covered by further musicians, and has been included upon several jazz collections.