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Herbie Tsoaeli
Affectionately known as "Malume", Herbie Tsoaeli is a bassist, composer, arranger and a 2013 Best Jazz Album South African Music Award winner, for his debut album African Time.
The incomparable jazz musician, is considered as one of South Africa’s leading bass maestros and hails from Nyanga East, in Cape Town – one of the more politically charged black locations in the Western Cape.
Coming from this community at the forefront of producing South Africa’s rich jazz legacy - rooted in his biographical experiences - his music is a nuanced expression of the black community.
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Afrikan Time Music and Black Theology, in Conversation
by Ngwako Malakalaka
To mark South Africa's Heritage Month and Steve Biko's commemoration, Herbie Tsoaeli, the South African award-winning jazz bassist and the “Centre for Black Thought and African Studies," presented a conversation and a live jazz performance on “Black Theology and Afrikan Time" music. The discussion was about black liberation theologies in their quest to make sense of the lived realities of black people on the backdrop of the liberatory message of Christianity. To inspire and respond to ...
Continue ReadingWinston Mankunku Ngozi: Abantwana Be Afrika
by AAJ Staff
While legions of South African jazz artists left the country in the '60s to escape apartheid, saxophonist Winston Mankunku Ngozi stayed home, and he paid a heavy price for his choice. Expatriates like Abdullah Ibrahim and Hugh Masekela circulated within American and European jazz communities, earning exposure and recognition. Mankunku labored under a regime which restricted his personal and musical freedom, sometimes performing under a pseudonym or behind a curtain. But his 1968 record Yakhal' Inkomo stands as one of ...
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Herbie Tsoaeli
Instrument: Bass, acoustic
