Mongezi Feza
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- South Africa
- Active from
- 1945
- Active to
- 1975-12-14
jazz
Discography
- Music For Xaba1973
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Mongezi Feza (1945 – 14 December 1975) was a South African jazz trumpet player and flautist. A member of The Blue Notes, he left South Africa in 1964 and settled in Europe, living in London and Copenhagen. As a trumpeter, his influences included hard bopper Clifford Brown and free jazz pioneer Don Cherry. After The Blue Notes splintered in the late 1960s, he played with British rock musician Robert Wyatt, progressive rock band Henry Cow, and most extensively with fellow ex Blue Notes Johnny Dya
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- South Africa
- Place of birth
- Queenstown
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- jazz musician
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- flute
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- manner of death
- natural causes
- date of death
- 1975-12-14
- cause of death
- pneumonia
- date of birth
- 1945-01-01
- start of work period
- 1964-00-00
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