Friday Jazz Breaks
I haven’t done this type of music break (i.e. all jazz) in a while. But before
I haven’t done this type of music break (i.e. all jazz) in a while. But before
Moses Molelekwa, the brilliant South African pianist, composer and producer died by suicide on 13 February 2001. Florence Mtoba, his wife (also his manager) was found with him; she had been strangled.
An ode to The Mahogany Room, the pre-eminent live jazz venue in Cape Town, South Africa.
The pianist, Kyle Shepherd, loathes labels, especially of him as the architect or savior of Cape Jazz, the music associated with Cape Town.
South African jazz singer Sathima Bea Benjamin's life complicates jazz history and shows how Africans reshaped American jazz in the 20th century.
Younger generations of artists, many immigrants of African origin, are reconfiguring the arts in France on their own terms.
By Dan Magaziner* South Africa’s 1970s are rightly remembered as a time of rising militancy. From
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTRmpJ_EpJE Dub Colossus member Samuel Yirga “plays one night a week in Addis’s only jazz club/coffee
I first saw Kesivan Naidoo play at the Independent Armchair Theater in Observatory. I was living
By 1964, Dollar Brand (later Abdullah Ibrahim) had already made 3 LP's as a bandleader. He was living in Switzerland and had just gotten a boost from Duke Ellington.
In the last year fans of South African jazz had to contend with the passing of musicians
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAwOqtiVVCI&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Corrected: A rare film clip (there must be more where this came from), posted on Youtube
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM6hPuui-l8&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Next Tuesday (September 28th) and Wednesday (September 29th) London jazz group Portico Quartet–their sound has
Woke up this morning with the sad news in my email inbox–from music journalist Gwen Ansell–that
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrvzEbrf8Ow&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Master musician Dudu Pukwana, he played the saxophone, who was part of a great generation
What often gets lost within the narratives of oppression and exile is that the 1960s and 1970s also proved to be an exceptionally vibrant and creative period.
The revival of Ethiopian jazz, a tradition that dates back to the 1920s, and had its heyday under Emperor Haile Selassie.
Van Heerden was a fixture in Cape Town's jazz and alternative music scenes. His music is now available for purchase online.
Manic Street Preachers pay homage to the greatest American of the first half of the twentieth century, Paul Robeson. The music video by Nigerian Andrew Dosunmu is a tribute too.