The country has a rich, original relationship to jazz, with American techniques layered into regional traditions and rhythms. Explore 50 years of recordings picked by musicians, poets and writers. By ...

Senegalese bassist and singer Alune Wade celebrates his album New African Orleans with his septet in an exclusive KNKX studio ...

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 ...

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 ...

He was born in 1939 in South Africa at a time when the rights of the black population were nonexistent. In the absence of a good fairy leaning over his cradle in a township, the young adolescent ...

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 ...

Read full article: Duke Energy offers free credit monitoring after cyber incident Jazz singer and writer, Gloria Bosman performs at the 22nd Joy of Jazz Festival in Johannesburg on Sept. 26, 2019.

Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many, at first, ...

For Dr Robert Ngobi (PhD), jazz is not just a genre; it is a method; a way of thinking, surviving, and transforming silence into meaning. He believes this method belongs to every African who has ever ...

Lex Futshane, the South African bass player in the 1992 student band NU Jazz Connection, was the first to tell me that the great South African jazz trumpeter Feya Faku had died while touring ...