Jazz Articles about Jess Mogale

Jesse Mogale: Heritage from an African Continent

by Dan Bilawsky
March 6, 2021

The debut from Jesse Mogale is a statement of self-understanding and an elaboration on relational identity—this South African bassist's means of discovering himself and creating music driven by and juxtaposed against broader backdrops, including the reach of his own past, the culture of his homeland, the shape and history of the entire African continent and the vast world beyond it. Neither sound nor stories nor influence can be viewed as an attendant matter in this work, as Mogale eyes all ...