Like his fellow Blue Notes, bassist Johnny Dyani left his native South Africa in the mid-1960s, in the aftermath of the Sharpeville massacre. He died in Berlin in 1986, and so never saw his homeland emerge from the horrors of apartheid. Inevitably, the exile experience underpinned the music he made in the intervening two decades – with Steve Lacy, the Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Abdullah Ibrahim, John Tchicai, Don Cherry, David Murray and Frøde Gjerstad, as well as compatriots like drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo. These two albums, both recorded in Stockholm, reveal his singular musical vision. There's spirited free jazz, most obviously on Rejoice, which features fellow Blue Note Mongezi Feza as well as Turkish percussionist Okay Temiz. Although recorded in 1972, the record was not released until 1988 (by which time Mongs, too, was dead) and has never previously been released on CD. Together, recorded in 1979 and 1980 and featuring another former Blue Note, saxophonist Dudu Pukwana, finds Diyani on keys and vocals for a more celebratory, song-based collection. Together, the two discs represent a fitting tribute to his enduring amalgam of blazing avant-garde jazz with marabi and kwela music.