Jazz Articles about Bokani Dyer

Bokani Dyer: World Music

by Dan Bilawsky
January 27, 2016

It's not exactly a secret that the concept of “World Music" isn't all that its name implies. That tag, still in wide use today, became somewhat meaningless a couple decades back, serving primarily as an umbrella category to market any and every form of non-Western music to Western ears. But South African pianist Bokani Dyer sees it differently. His own vision of this ideal is based on musical egalitarianism, or, as noted on his own website, “a celebration of all ...