Thanks for the concert footage of Union Spéciale and congrats on being sent such a great-looking book by its author no less! Sounds like you`re a respected member of a music-loving fraternity irl as well as here on MB.
Ian Bruce Huntley is a completely new name to me, so someone I might investigate when I get the chance. In fact, there are so many musicians mushrooming out of the early days of SA jazz that I`m glad I didn`t tackle anything more ambitious than a couple of the early decades.
I checked youtube, but only found one clip of the Mr.Paljas musical that you mentioned. Sorry, rostasi, with it`s English lyrics, I found it a bit disappointing.
At the moment, one artist I`m enjoying is Dollar Brand; I`ve come across a couple of cool tracks by him, for example:-
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