Mongezi Feza

Artist 1945–1975

Trumpeter from Queenstown, born in 1945, who was already playing at Cape Town jazz festivals as a teenager and left with the Blue Notes in 1964. In London he worked with the Brotherhood of Breath and with the rock musician Robert Wyatt. He died of untreated pneumonia in December 1975, aged 30, and his friends recorded a memorial for him nine days later.

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was born in

Queenstown (1945)

worked with

Dudu Pukwana the Blue Notes, and Assagai after them

lived in

London he died there in 1975

was a member of

Brotherhood of Breath
The Blue Notes trumpet

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