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Benjamin Jephta

Homecoming Revisited

By Benjamin Jephta

Label: Akustik Elekrik Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Prayer for... (revisited); Prayer for Ada (revisited); The Blessing; Still I Rise (part 1) (revisited); Still I Rise (part 2) (revisited); One for the Plein (revisited); Homecoming (part 1) (revisited); Homecoming (part 2) (revisited); Be Strong (revisited).

Benjamin Jephta: Homecoming Revisited

by Dan Bilawsky
December 15, 2025

At 22 years of age, the up-and-coming Cape Town-reared bassist Benjamin Jephta introduced himself to the wider world via Homecoming (Self Produced, 2015), an engrossing debut featuring South African standouts like tenor saxophonist Sisonke Xonti, trumpeter Marcus Wyatt, pianist Kyle Shepherd, drummer Sphelelo Mazibuko and vocalist Spha Mdlalose.  A decade later, he gives us Homecoming Revisted, re- envisioning that ...

Seven

By Melanie Scholtz

Label: AfricArise/Ropeadope
Released: 2024
Track listing: As Is / This Is Me (interlude); New Skin; Remedy; Music is the Man of My Dreams; Thread (interlude); With Me; Same Black Magic; Open Heart (interlude); Love Again; Very Soon (electronic interlude); Benjamin; Very Soon (acoustic).

Melanie Scholtz: Seven

by Dan Bilawsky
October 1, 2024

Seven years is both an eternity and the blink of an eye.  Enough of a stretch for individual circumstances to turn on countless dimes, it's also just a brief moment in the sea of existence and the greater, grander scheme.  Seven is life itself...yet it's also one of its component cycles.  South African-born vocalist Melanie Scholtz ...

Tapestry

By Thapelo Lekoane

Label: Thapelo Lekoane
Released: 2021
Track listing: Human; Anyway; Heritage; Saber (To Know); More To Tell (featuring The SN Project); North Star; Momentous Vow; Why (featuring Lebogang Mashile); Ikhaya; Human (Reprise)

Alonzo Demetrius: Live From The Prison Nation

by Mike Jurkovic
January 4, 2021

Drummer Ralph Peterson's righteous mission is the continuum of late mentor Art Blakey with the all cylinders burn of the Messengers Legacy performances and twenty-five recordings, including 2020's charismatic Onward & Upward (Onyx Productions). He chooses trumpeter Alonzo Demetrius as his first label mate to help bring the even larger legacy of the black movement forward. ...

Live From The Prison Nation

By Alonzo Demetrius

Label: Onyx Productions
Released: 2020
Track listing: Expectations; The Principle; Yesseh's Interlude; Mumia's Guidance; F.O.O. Interlude; F.O.O. Shit.

Claude Cozens: Reimagining Rhythm

by Seton Hawkins
November 1, 2019

The Cape Jazz sound of South Africa is known to international audiences primarily thanks to the music of pianist Abdullah Ibrahim. However, the music and traditions of Cape Town and the Western Cape run much deeper, reflecting an extraordinary, sometimes contradictory, and exceedingly complex set of cultures and traditions reflected in the area. Within this environment ...

Aaron Rimbui: Nairobi to New York City

by Seton Hawkins
April 2, 2019

Kenya is noted for an extraordinary array of musical offerings yet its jazz scene has historically been quite slim. However, Nairobi-born pianist Aaron Rimbui may change that dynamic. Drawing on the musical traditions of Kenya and East Africa, Rimbui has established a singular and absolutely arresting approach to jazz piano. With several ...