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Newly reissued by the BBE label’s J Jazz series, the Tokyo pianist’s 1979 album is more traditional than its contemporaries in the Japanese jazz scene, but it overflows with character.
Brass, class, steel and sorrow: Jonas Gwangwa cut close to the bone
29 Jan 2021
Trombonist Jonas Gwangwa has a superb back catalogue, despite the fact that not all of his recordings have been reissued. (Siphiwe Mhlambi)
Joni Mitchell put it best in
Big Yellow Taxi: “Don’t it always seem to go/ That you don’t know what you’ve lost/Till it’s gone.” So it is with the passing of Jonas Mosa Gwangwa. Only now, after a full week of sadness and tributes, does it even start feeling real that there will be no more new songs from the mind, voice and trombone that gave us