''Soweto'' is the debut album led by American jazz drummer
Billy Higgins
Billy Higgins (October 11, 1936 – May 3, 2001) was an American jazz drummer. He played mainly free jazz and hard bop.
Biography
Higgins was born in Los Angeles, California, United States. Higgins played on Ornette Coleman's first records, be ...
recorded in 1979 and released on the Italian
Red
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label.
[Fitzgerald, M.]
Billy Higgins discography
accessed August 12, 2014
Reception
The
AllMusic
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review by Ron Wynn states "this was a welcome entry by a good group that unfortunately didn't work together longer."
[Wynn, R]
Allmusic Review
accessed August 12, 2014
Track listing
''All compositions by Billy Higgins except as indicated''
# "Soweto – 9:20
# "Clockwise" (Cedar Walton) – 8:08
# "Neptune" (Bob Berg) – 5:36
# "Back to Bologna" (Walton) – 8:05
# "Bahia, Bahia, Bahia" – 10:20
Personnel
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Billy Higgins
Billy Higgins (October 11, 1936 – May 3, 2001) was an American jazz drummer. He played mainly free jazz and hard bop.
Biography
Higgins was born in Los Angeles, California, United States. Higgins played on Ornette Coleman's first records, be ...
– drums, guitar, vocals
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Bob Berg
Robert Berg (April 7, 1951 – December 5, 2002) was an American jazz saxophonist.
Biography
Berg was born in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
Berg started his musical education at the age of six when he began studying classical piano. He be ...
–
tenor saxophone
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Cedar Walton
Cedar Anthony Walton Jr. (January 17, 1934 – August 19, 2013) was an American hard bop jazz pianist. He came to prominence as a member of drummer Art Blakey's band, The Jazz Messengers, before establishing a long career as a bandleader and com ...
– piano
*Tony Dumas –
bass
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References
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Red Records albums
Billy Higgins albums
1979 albums