Cousin Wash & Ndiko Xaba LP Rare Private Recording Spiritual Jazz Story Telling Archival Sleeve

Recorded at Lincoln Intermediate School Berkeley, California, March 25 & 26, 1971 Recently sold for $ 595

Artist: Cousin Wash and Ndiko Xaba Title: The Environmental Studies Project NOTE: This was a Environmental Studies Project of the Berkeley Unified School District. This is a story teller with Ndiko. Children's record. This is a weird awesome one. I assume very few of these exist. Can't find any info.

Rare private pressing featuring Ndikho Xaba, some members of Oneness of Juju, The Pyramids and The Natives. Live jazz performance with spoken word over the top. Cool Bay Area historical recording.

Plunky & Oneness of Juju is the name of a rhythm & blues-African-jazz-funk band from Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A. The group, originally known as Juju, was founded in San Francisco in 1971 and has continued to evolve for over 30 years, performing and recording with changes in personnel and under different group names, but always led by J. Plunky Branch (Plunky Nkabinde). The basic chronology has been as follows: the group was originally called Juju (9) (1971-74), then Oneness of Juju (1975-81); then Plunky & Oneness of Juju (1982-88); and most recently Plunky & Oneness (1988 - present).

 Plunky Nkabinde migrated to San Francisco and Ken Shabala followed. In 1969 they met Lon Moshe, a vibraphonist from Chicago and joined an African avant-garde group called Ndikho and the Natives, led by South African pianist/percussionist, Ndikho Xaba. 
The group recorded one LP "Ndikho Xaba And The Natives"