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September 16, 2010 By 2 Comments

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. About these ads

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How The Mighty Have Fallen

July 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Two of South Africa’s most talented musicians of the last 30 years, Robbie Jansen (1949-2010), sax and flute player who was in a band with Abdullah Ibrahim, and Nana Coyote (1955-2010), who made his name as a vocalist with the soul music outfit Stimela (led by Ray Phiri), passed this week.

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MUSIC / TWEEDE NUWEJAAR

December 31, 2009 By 4 Comments

Around this time every year I get very homesick. (Last year I was in Cape Town). I am in northern Wyoming where its cold and snow turned to ice means downhill skiing (about which I blow hold and cold) is out of the question. So what I do is play lots of music from Cape […]

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THE CAPE DOCTOR

August 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Robbie Jansen (a Cape Town alumnus of Abdullah Ibrahim’s various bands) turns 60 today. Jansen, who fell ill last year, now performs with an oxygen tank close by.  The video is from a live performance in 2007.

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