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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

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Seven

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).

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Enhlizweni - Song Stories From My Heartland

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?.

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Article: Album Review

Melanie Scholtz: Seven

Read "Seven" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


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 ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

2024 Winter JazzFest: The Out-of-Towners

Read "2024 Winter JazzFest: The Out-of-Towners" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


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 ...

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Radio Sechaba

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.

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Article: Album Review

Bokani Dyer: Radio Sechaba

Read "Radio Sechaba" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


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 ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

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

Read "Bokani Dyer, Kenny Barron, Claudia Acuña, Vusi Mahlasela & More" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


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 ...

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Finish The Sun

Label: Dox Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Finish The Sun; Where The Heart Is; Umshana; Spirit Animal; Kucheza; Joburg Poem; Flow; The Walk;

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Article: Album Review

Shane Cooper & Mabuta: Finish The Sun

Read "Finish The Sun" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


On Mabuta's debut—Welcome To This World (Afrosynth Records, 2018)—South African bassist, electronic musician and composer Shane Cooper introduced ears to a leading-edge ensemble intent on delivering trippy, dance-friendly designs. Now, with this second album, he doubles down on that core concept, delivering a heap of hip groovers which draw strength from Pan-African influences and ride high ...


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