It's About Time

Sydney Ace Mnisi

It's About Time
Performed By Sydney Ace Mnisi
Album UPC 634479868733
CD Baby Track ID 5459494
Label Mvuleni
Released 2008-01-01
BPM 146
Rated 0
ISRC ushm20889949
Year 2008
Spotify Plays 651
Writers
Writer Sydney Ace Mnisi
Pub Co Mvuleni Publishing Cc
Composer Sydney Ace Mnisi
ClearanceFacebook Sync License,Traditional Sync,YouTube Sync ServiceOne Stop
Rights Controlled Master and Publishing Grant
Rights One-Stop: Master + 100% Pub Grant
Original/Cover/Public Domain original
Country South Africa

Description

Hardbop

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Biography

Artistic genius, so the popular sentiment goes, always makes manifest of its self at a tender age, born Sydney Ace Mnisi in Edenvale [Dindela] JHB---Tembisa, Very rarely does one get into the game at a relatively advanced age and then fully blossom. But it does happen, once in a while. Ask those who have played with Sydney Mnisi, who have watched him at his most spiritual and possessed and ready to explore every musical note known and unknown to man, and they will tell you that yes, it does happen, once in a while.

Who would have guessed, 20 years ago, that this is the sort of man, the kind of artist, that Mnisi would end up being? Because this is the man who waited until he was 28 (trumpeter, Clifford Brown, did not even live to be that old, but he had established himself as a major force in jazz by the time he died aged 26), to decide that his future lay in jazz, and that the tenor saxophone, was the instrument most suited to his unique, mellifluous voice. Today he is an accomplished and respected saxophonist who has played with the likes of Abdullah Ibrahim, Bheki Mseleku, Jonas Gwangwa, and Hugh Masekela, The late guitar maestro, Alan Kwela, and Caiphus Semenya, to name just a few.

Recalling how he got into jazz, it was a calling I could not resist. I mean, I used to listen to guys like Sonny Rollins, Ben Webster, and Dexter Gordon all those giants. and there was always this thing that said I should also one day play this instrument. When I decided to quit my job in 1988(Mnisi had been working as a fitter and turner at the giant metals company, scaw Metals), my family thought I was crazy. I took about R15000 of my savings a substantial amount at the time and enrolled at Fuba Music Academy before moving on to Pretoria Technikon

At last Mnisi has followed his dream, lending weight to the statement by Dexter Gordon that jazz is music that lives,[A]music that since it\'s beginning has expressed the feelings the dreams ,hopes, of the people Elsewhere, the jazz enthusiast, Dudley Moloi, referred to jazz as akin to digging, like your whole life depends on it /You search in frustration /You hit it /But can\'t get it /Eventually you get it But in the meantime, the search continue /And the digging continues.Mnisi knows all about digging. He has been at it for twenty years now, and he feels it\'s About Time he brought out his own album. And hell it is, because time is of essence, Mnisi calls this a 20 years Celebration.

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