Keeping
Time celebrates the public emergence of an
extraordinary visual and audio archive begun by Ian Bruce Huntley in Cape Town some
50 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
bl”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 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 160 page 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.
40 copies are now available in the USA via
Siemon Allen, 90 copies from London and 320 from Durban.
From USA: $59.99 + $4.00 postage (P&P
to anywhere else worldwide$35.00)
From Europe: £39.99 + P&P to UK
(£5.00); to EU £10.00; anywhere else in the world £20.00
From South Africa: R438.50 + R61.39 VAT =
R499.89. P&P R43.00.
SADC: R460.00. P&P R270.00
Rest of World – from South Africa:
ZAR470.00. P&P ZAR470.00
To place your order, contact Chris Albertyn
on e-mail: recordforthe@gmail.com
For more information visit http://www.electricjive.blogspot.com/
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