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Day Two: 2005 Cape Town International Jazz Festival

by AAJ Staff
March 31, 2005

Day 1 | Day 2 | The Aftermath Cape Town The city of Cape Town is located in the area where Portuguese navigators first made the open water connection between Atlantic and Indian Oceans over four hundred years ago. In subsequent development by the Dutch, it became an outpost for East-West trade routes, and ...

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2005 Cape Town International Jazz Festival: Africa's Grandest Gathering

by AAJ Staff
March 30, 2005

Day 1 | Day 2 | The Aftermath Two days after my arrival in South Africa, things are still a blur. I planned this trip months ago and I did plenty of homework in advance, but nothing can adequately prepare you for the explosive cultural and human landscape of South Africa. Home to over ...

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The Sahara: Festival in the Desert & Tinariwen

by AAJ Staff
January 29, 2005

Festival in the Desert A Film by Lionel Brouet World Village 2004 For three days in early January of 2003, camels and 4x4s converged upon an oasis in Essakane, Mali. They brought with them a curious collection of Tuareg nomads and local musicians, even groups from Europe and ...

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South Africa: Pop for a Rainy Day

by AAJ Staff
January 23, 2005

South Africa may be best known in the rest of the world for its significant jazz and gospel output, but it's also home to a burgeoning pop scene which merges kwaito (a homegrown techno/hip-hop/house hybrid) with various roots and international influences. These two records exemplify the modern sounds of urban South Africa, a place where restless ...

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Ted Gioia: The History of Jazz

by AAJ Staff
January 3, 2005

About Ted GioiaTed Gioia was raised in Hawhtorne, California, a working class neighborhood in the South-Central area of Los Anglees county. Jazz was not part of Hawthorne's nightlife--indeed, the city is perhaps best known as hometown to the Beach Boys. But while his friends and classmates listened to surf and soul music, Gioia was practicing the ...

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Introducing Shiyani Ngcobo and Vakoka

by AAJ Staff
December 9, 2004

> World Music Network, a London-based company specializing in global music, celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. It's probably best known for 130 comprehensive and information-dense Rough Guide compilations surveying music from South African Gospel to Salsa Colombia. But it's also affiliated with the Riverboat label, which has put out a series of individual international ...

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Fred Anderson's Legendary Velvet Lounge

by Jeff Stockton
December 7, 2004

It was broad daylight the first time I drove down to Chicago's South Loop, just to see where Fred Anderson's legendary Velvet Lounge was. I went right passed it. In the middle of the afternoon, there isn't much going on in the area that surrounds the city's mammoth convention center, McCormick Place. Squeezed in between an ...

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Musik Ye Afrika: United We Stand

by AAJ Staff
October 10, 2004

Musik Ye Afrika United We Stand Sheer Sound 2004 Immediately flush any images of stars and stripes from your head before you get past the title of United We Stand. This is not a patriotic album, nor a statement against terrorism, nor any sort of campaign booster for ...

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Youssou N'Dour: Egypt

by AAJ Staff
August 5, 2004

Youssou N'Dour Egypt Nonesuch Records 2004 Youssou N'Dour is as close to an international megastar as African musicians get, having earned first a massive fan base in his home of Senegal and then a worldwide following on the heels of his work with Peter Gabriel and others. His ...

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Oliver Mtukudzi: Shanda

by AAJ Staff
August 1, 2004

He made the cover of Time magazine in March of 2003, and he's attracted a lot of listeners outside the following in his home country, but it's an unfortunate fact that most people haven't ever heard of Oliver Mtukudzi. When John and Louise Riber decided to make a movie about the Zimbabwean pop star, ...