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A series of essays wherein I explore the numerous musical identities of my favorite musician: from child prodigy to teen idol to guitar hero to singer/songwriter to award-winning in-demand film composer.
Featuring news/updates and commentary/analysis of Trevor's career and associated projects.
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Tuesday, January 9, 2018

The Secret Discography: totally sax-y

One of a series which examines Trevor’s musical career in South Africa.

With thanks to the YouTube channel afrosunny (which curates vintage recordings from Africa of various genres) for recently uploading this lost classic (in great quality)...


1976 was a busy year for Our Trev and The Bull and The Lion is one of various releases featuring Trevor, Ronnie and Neil serving as a backing band for jazz musicians on fusion-minded recordings.  Back in 2009 the African music blog ElectricJive published an entry on this album:
http://electricjive.blogspot.com/2009/08/rabbit-meet-bull-and-lion-at-jungle.html
...and I thank the blog's creators for bringing it to my attention then, as it was my first experience hearing Trevor play true fusion from back in the day.

(ElectricJive is a wonderful source for learning more about South African music during the Apartheid era and I highly recommend checking out the blog if you're interested.)

Although the credits don't state it specifically, I believe Trevor is also playing all the keyboards on this album, which beautifully showcases the saxophone talents of Ratau Mike Makhalemele and Winston Mankunku Ngozi with production by Patric van Blerk.  The boys backed up Mike on his album of Beatles' covers entitled Mind Games, also recorded in 1976 - among other projects of the time, such as the funk-jazz ensemble You And Me which featured Mike with Trevor and Neil.