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 history of jazz in South Africa is inextricably linked to the legacy of the struggle against apartheid. The first wave of jazz musicians who gained renown outside of the nation were forced into ...

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 ...

Montreux Jazz Festival arrives in Africa, with Cartology Travel offering exclusive Cape Town and Franschhoek VIP experiences.

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 ...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jj.14416300 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jj.14416300.3 A story typically has multiple times and places of origin. Some of ...

It’s 100 years since the birth of reedman Jeremiah Morolong “Kippie” Moeketsi on 27 July 1925. He was one of the most influential saxophonists shaping South Africa’s modern jazz style. His death in ...

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 ...

One of the most influential artists in South Africa’s rich history of jazz is Kippie Moeketsi. He was born on 27 July 2025 and passed away at only 57. Like Moeketsi, Salim Washington plays the ...