This past summer at least three prominent figures of the Cape Town jazz scene–the saxophone players Robbie Jansen and Ezra Ngcukana and, most recently, pianist and historian Vincent Kolbe–passed.
For me, this recent live recording of “Os se mense” (Our people) by a representative of the next generation of Cape Town jazz musicians, Kyle Shepherd Trio, is a fitting tribute to these men.
* BTW, it is worth reading the historian and photographer John Edwin Mason’s separate tributes to these three giants on his blog. Mason also includes a link to a film of Kolbe by Rio Allen.
That was befok!
For real. That’s why I posted it.