Ever since I heard the Argentine saxophonist Gato Barbieri back in the Seventies, I’ve been fascinated by musicians from ...

1. Noto Sangoma - African Jazz Pioneers; 2. Thaba Bosiu - Sipho Mabuse; 3. African Marketplace - Abdullah Ibrahim; 4. Tunji's Song - Chris McGregor & the Brotherhood of Breath; 5. Cabbage and Roti - ...

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 ...

Louis Tebugo Moholo-Moholo was born in St Monica’s Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa on 10 March 1940. He’d not have appreciated that introduction, once chastising an interviewer: Ah, no! My name is ...

On June 13 the sad news arrived that legendary South African drummer and composer Louis Moholo-Moholo had passed away at 85 after a long illness. Louis, “Tebogo,” Bra Louis, as he was variously and ...

Jazz singer and writer, Gloria Bosman performs at the 22nd Joy of Jazz Festival in Johannesburg on Sept. 26, 2019. Smooth-voiced South African jazz musician Gloria Bosman has been lauded for her ...

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 ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Trumpeter and singer Hugh Masekela, known as the "father of South African jazz" who used his music in the fight against apartheid, has died from prostate cancer, his family ...