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Bokani Dyer

Bokani Dyer is a multi-award winning Motswana-South African pianist, composer and producer. In 2013, Dyer won the SAMRO Overseas Scholarships competition. His recent career highlights include playing at the opening of the London Jazz Festival (2015), showcasing his Trio at Jazzahead in Bremen, Germany (2016), headlining the Cape Town International Jazz Festival (2015) and an artistic residency at the Bird’s Eye jazz club in Basel, Switzerland (2014). Dyer has recorded three jazz albums - Mirrors (2010), Emancipate the Story (2011 - recorded during his time as Standard Bank Young Artist of the Year) and World Music (2015) which was nominated for Best Jazz Album at the 2016 South African Music Awards

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).

Enhlizweni - Song Stories From My Heartland

By Steve Dyer

Label: Ropeadope
Released: 2024
Track listing: Heartland; Kindred Spirits; TransAtlantic; Inyembezi; Ihlasele; Barren soil (land without opportunity); Falling trees in the forest; Phola; Uyivile; Senzeni na?.

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 ...

2024 Winter JazzFest: The Out-of-Towners

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 9, 2024

New York's Winter JazzFest is a happening where globetrotters discover our scene's goings-on. It's also the place where New Yorkers get chance to hear music from abroad (or at least from out of town), including by musicians featured here. Enjoy a playlist which will make you want to go to see them live! Happy ...

Radio Sechaba

By Bokani Dyer

Label: Brownswood Recordings
Released: 2023
Track listing: Be Where You Are; Mogaetsho; Move On; State of the Nation; Tiya Mowa; Ke Nako; Picturesque; Spirit People; Victims of Circumstane; Amogelang; Ho Tla Loka; Resonance of Truth; You Are Home; Medu.

Bokani Dyer: Radio Sechaba

by Dan Bilawsky
May 30, 2023

Bokani Dyer has already established himself as one of the leading musical voices of his generation in South Africa. But with Radio Sechaba--the heralded multi-hyphenate's first release on aural arbiter Gilles Peterson's Brownswood imprint--he expands his voice, reach and notability. Synthesizing a set of broad influences and building sounds of possibility surrounding his homeland and a ...

Bokani Dyer, Kenny Barron, Claudia Acuña, Vusi Mahlasela & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
May 6, 2023

This week we focus on emerging musicians from South Africa, and on a number of recent releases showcasing the many facets of a living master of the piano, Kenny Barron, featured as solo artist on a rare recording date as a leader, as accompanist, as a composer that inspired other contemporary musicians, and as a side-man ...