Jazz

South African Jazz: Timeline

This special section is devoted to South African jazz, which has prospered for several decades and developed a distinctive character all its own. AAJ: SA was created in 2002 and has since been updated ...
Jazz

South African Jazz: Start Here

This special section is devoted to South African jazz, which has prospered for several decades and developed a distinctive character all its own. AAJ: SA was created in 2002 and has since been updated ...
Forbes

South Africans Perform Jazz From Their Homeland In New York City

Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Mother Africa season continued last weekend with two concerts featuring South African contemporary pianist and composer Nduduzo Makhathini performing the music of Bheki ...
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Lorraine Klaasen returns to South African stage for Joy of Jazz homecoming

For Lorraine Klaasen, home may now be thousands of kilometres away, but South Africa has never left her heart. Born in Soweto ...
Anadolu Ajansi

South Africa's Jazz transition

Each year, thousands of music lovers come together for the international Jazz festival in Cape Town, ranked among the top-ten best jazz festivals in the world. "This is my fourth or fifth year ...
The Conversation

Jazz: South Africa’s Shane Cooper and his band Mabuta make borders irrelevant

South African jazz seems to be having another international moment. Recently, for example, the Blue Note jazz label launched a new imprint, Blue Note Africa dedicated to the continent’s music. Its ...
The Daily Illini

UI hosts authors, discuss pioneering jazz education in apartheid South Africa

The Center for Advanced Study and the University of Illinois Press hosted panelists Darius and Catherine Brubeck, who pioneered the first jazz education program in apartheid South Africa. The Brubecks ...
The Conversation

Sylvia Mdunyelwa, one of South Africa’s great jazz vocalists, kept music traditions alive

Sylvia Mdunyelwa in Langa township in 2023. Screengrab/YouTube/Scene It As a researcher who documents historical and current South African jazz and popular music, I believe Mdunyelwa merits ...
The Africa Report

South Africa: How independent music label Matsuli has kept local jazz alive

While there are those who place flowers upon graves to honour the dead, others dust off the archives to reissue the music of an artist lost to time. Pianist Gideon Nxumalo, who died in 1970, was ...
The Boston Globe

At 90, jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim is still finding new ways to engage with music

South African jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim laughs when he remembers a gig he played shortly after he moved to America in 1965. “There was this club in New York and I suggested that I bring my trio,” ...
Stereogum

Two Generations Of South African Jazz

Bokani Dyer is not just a leading figure in contemporary South African jazz, he's also a living link to its history. His father, saxophonist Steve Dyer, was part of Medu, a radical multi-disciplinary ...