Blues for a Hip King

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Blues for a Hip King
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 1989
Genre Jazz
Label Kaz
Abdullah Ibrahim chronology
Mindif
(1988)
Blues for a Hip King
(1989)
African River
(1989)

Blues for a Hip King is jazz album by South African artist Abdullah Ibrahim, released in 1989. The recordings are from several sessions in 1974, 1976 and 1979.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Ornette's Cornet" - 5:23
  2. "All Day & All Night Long" - 5:28
  3. "Sweet Basil Blues" - 6:21
  4. "Blue Monk" (Monk) - 6:06
  5. "Tsakwe Here Comes the Postman" - 11:45
  6. "Blues for a Hip King" - 9:47
  7. "Blues for B" - 3:27
  8. "Mysterioso" (Monk) - 4:41
  9. "Just You, Just Me" (Greer, Klages) - 4:59
  10. "Eclipse at Dawn" - 4:02
  11. "King Kong" (Todd Matshikiza) - 5:24
  12. "Khumbula Jane" - 5:55

Personnel


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