Johnny Dyani
About the artist
Johnny Mbizo Dyani (30 November 1945 – 24 October 1986) was a South African jazz double bassist and pianist who played with such musicians as Don Cherry, Steve Lacy, David Murray and Leo Smith. He was born and grew up in Duncan Village, a township of the South African city of East London. In the early 1960s he was a member of South Africa's first integrated jazz band The Blue Notes, with Mongezi Feza on trumpet, Dudu Pukwana on alto saxophone, Nikele Moyake on tenor saxophone, Chris McGregor on piano, and Louis Moholo on drums.
Top songs
- Magwaza
- Radebe
- Heart with Minor's Face
- Ntyilo, Ntyilo
- Mbizo
- Eyomzi
- Song For Biko
- Wish You Sunshine
- Confession Of Moods
- Jo'burg - New York
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- Lonely Flower In The Village
- Ntyilo, Ntyilo, Take 1
- blame it on the boers
- Ntyilo Ntyilo
- Kalahari Lives
- Grandmother's Teaching
- Pretoria Three
- Appear
- Angolian Cry
- Funk Dem Dudu
- Needle Children
- U.D.F.
- Kippieology
- Year of the Child
- For Leo Dirch Petersen
- Does Your Father Know
- Dedicated to Mingus
- Radebe, Take 1
- Dorkay House
- Blues For Moyake
- Portrait of Mosa Gwangwa
- Dedicated to Abdullah Ibrahim
- House Arrest
- Musician's Musician
- Magwaza, Take 1
- Heart with Minor's Face - Alternative Take
- Lament For Crossroads
- Namhanje
- African Anthem (Zulu) / African Blues / Ithi-Gqi
- Heart With A Minor's Face
- Portrait Of Tete Mbambisa
- Lonely Flowers
- Lonely Flowers - Remastered 2024
- Winnie Mandela
- Ntyilo Ntyilo (take 1)
- Magwaza (take 1)
- Grandmother's Teaching, Alt. Take
- Radebe (take 1)
- Namibia
- Heart with Minor's Face (take 2)
- The Boys From Somafco
- Let My People Get Some Freedom
- Musicians Musician
- Dedicated Abdullah Ibrahim
- Mbiza
- Marimba - Elhamdülillah Marimba
- African Anthem (Zulu) / African Blues / Ithi-Gqi - Remastered 2024
- Song For The Workers
- M'Bizo
- Grandmother's Teaching Take 1
- It's For You All - Hepimiz İçin
- Safari - Live at Jazz Unite
- I'm Muslim Man - Ben Müslümanım
- Radebe (tk 1)
- Heart With Minor's Face (tk 2)
- Ntyilo Ntyilo (tk 1)
- Magwaza (tk 1)
- Saud
- Magwaza [Take 1]
- South African / The Robin Irland Struff
- African Cake Walk - Live at Jazz Unite
- Moriva (By The Children of South Africa) - Moriva (Güney Afrikalı Çocuklar)
- Makulu-Kalahari - Live at Jazz Unite
- Heart With a Minor's Face,
- Ntyilo Ntyilo (The Love Bird)
- Marabi Soweto
- For Leo Dirch Peterson
- Lonely Flower
- Radebe [Take 1)
- Strange Intrusions - Live at Jazz Unite
- Does Your Father Know?
- Mad High
- Together
- Traditional South African Songs
- High Priest
- Heart With A Minor's Face [2)
- Blues For Bra Dick
- 02 Song for Biko
- Heart with Minor's Face (Alternative Take)
- 03 Confession of Moods
- Lonely Flower in the Village: Flower of Peace/Duncan Village [#]
- South African / The Robin Irland Struff - Remastered 2024
- Lonely Flower in the Village: Flower of Peace/Duncan Village
- Grandmother's Teachings
- 01 Wish You Sunshine
- Makaya Makaya
- Lakutshonilanga (When The Sun Sets)
- 04 Jo'burg - New York
- Time Will Tell - Live at Jazz Unite
- Open Ballad to Mandela
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