At 64, McCoy Mrubata is a commanding presence on the South African jazz scene. A Cape Town native who now resides in Johannesburg along with his wife and four children, Mrubata has won many awards and ...
Ebo Taylor has died at 90. He was a world-renowned musician and composer of African highlife music, but it took decades for ...
Duke Ellington rejected it, Charles Mingus was ambivalent about it, and Wynton Marsalis is okay with it. For many African American musicians the word “jazz” is a double-edged term, sometimes ...
Professor of Global Jazz Studies and Music, Herb Alpert School of Music, University of California, Los Angeles One of the most influential artists in South Africa’s rich history of jazz is Kippie ...
Roughly a month ago, Jazz at Lincoln Center launched its 2025-26 season with a new work by a major American composer and musician conceived in the agreed-upon general style of African music. This past ...
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 ...
George Folunsho Johnson (1916-1975) was born in Nigeria and earned the nickname Ginger due to his reddish hair and freckles. At 18, Ginger Johnson joined the Nigerian Navy, which took him around the ...
Duke in Africa features the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. It will be led by music directors (and newest JLCO members) Alexa Tarantino and Chris Lewis. It’s a powerful tribute ...
Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria Some record labels create huge market and financial clout. Some stay much smaller, but punch way above their weight in ...
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