Cape Jazz Band Project

23/1/ 2019 My experience of Ebrahim Khalil Shahib (only part of his story) Ebrahim Khalil Shihab in the studio Cape Town April 2018. (c) Patrick Lee-Thorp I first ran into Chris Schilder (as he was known then) in 1975 when he had teamed up with two of his wonderfully talented brothers, Jacky and Philly, for our company to book them for gig at a “homeland” Casino in the north of the Republic. Only once they had got back and I had sat with him and his piano, did I fully realise who I was actually dealing with. I was already something of a fan because I had an LP of his. This self taught pianist with an amazingly fluid style was also a natural composer who I felt was going to make a mark on South Africa Jazz. As it turned out it was a soul ballad, Give a Little Love , that made him famous, at least in the music business. But the depth of the rest of his work at the time put him on the road to becoming a respected jazzman. I only know part of the history, but it was...

Hamburg 10/10/2018 - Delayed release. After months of recording, mixing, compiling, editing and publishing paperwork, the track list of the fifth part of this album series has been fixed. The album is entitled, CAPE JAZZ PIANO. The tracks were sent to the download server in the USA together with the sleeve front on the 1st of October. There was a bump in the road as one of the pianists, Mike Perry has the same name as a DJ who is apparently quite famous, and their legal people have set up a block on the name. We are clearing this as I write. The CD album sleeve. (c) Songwrights Publishers. 2018 There are 10 main tracks as solo piano and a bonus track by a trio. From the label site - http://www.releases.music-production-ideas.com/?fbclid=IwAR2qnjcvUKCb7SHkTbhxclpYTZazl0alKDhvYALu36RQ8XkIthVJzOJiWUc#capejazzpiano TRACKLIST 1 - Mervyn Africa - Spirit of the Wind (M. Africa) 2:58 2 - Ramon Alexander – Montreal (A. Schilder) 5:23 3 - Hilton Schilder - Khoi...

06/12/18 - PRESS RELEASE This post is for media professionals and may only be re-published under the names of media professionals sampled by MOUNTAIN RECORDS with promotional samples of the CD album, CAPE JAZZ PIANO. We hope you enjoyed the sample.  Please feel free to email  - mountrec@gmail.com with any questions you may have. I know its crazy in today's music market but I decided to head back to the studio in April this year to add another chapter to the so far four part series of releases under the banner Cape Jazz.  The album features some of the pioneers and some of the young star jazz pianists from Cape Town. Our sister firm,  Songwrights Publishers , (publishers of the music of Basil Coetzee, Jonathan Butler, Robbie Jansen, Tony, Chris and Hilton Schilder, Winston Mankunku and many other Cape composers) have put up the funds to record and mix the album. To my surprise, while I have had a lot of good feedback to the first press announcement of th...

Press Release 13/8/2018 Mountain Records have issued a number of Cape Jazz albums over the years, in fact they could well be the biggest supporters of the genre on any record label. Releases by Robbie Jansen, Basil Coetzee, Tony Schilder, Jonathan Butler and many other jazz artists have been on the Mountain label.  A number of the releases have been nominated for industry awards and were the records that cemented the artist concerned as premier players in the SA Jazz scene. One of the most commercially successful records on the label was the album issued in 1992 simply called Cape Jazz. The album collected examples of recordings made by the label going back to 1980 which had strong rhythmic and melodic characteristics that both Jansen and Coetzee identified as, Cape Jazz. Since the first issue there have been 3 new volumes in the series. Each had a particular theme but all featured the genre that is today well established as the Jazz of the Cape. Now the 5th editio...