Results for "Lungile Kunene"

Lungile Kunene

True Story

By Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O

Label: Mushroom Hour Half Hour
Released: 2024
Track listing: Memory is the Weapon; MaBrrrrrrrrr; Dr. Philip Tabane; Baby Ngimanzi Wuthando; I Play What I Like; Global Warning; South African Jam; Peter’s Torch; Name It Later.

Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O: True Story

by Chris May
May 31, 2024

One of the minor but intriguing mysteries of modern culture is why the trombone is commonplace in African American music yet only rarely heard in Africa itself. Since its earliest days, jazz in the US has featured the trombone, as did ska in Jamaica. In analog-age samba and bossa nova in Brazil, the instrument was practically ...

Umdali

By Malcolm Jiyane Xorile

Label: Mushroom Hour Half Hour
Released: 2021
Track listing: Senzo seNikosi; Umkhumbi kaMa; Ntate Gwangwa’s Stroll; Life Esidimeni; Moshe.

Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O: Umdali

by Ian Patterson
December 19, 2021

Umdali may be the debut as leader of South African trombonist and visual artist Malcolm Jiyane (Tree-O is the name of his band), but one listen to the music--somber and uplifting in turn, gossamer soft and rousing at the poles--is sufficient to recognize his singular talent. Recorded in Johannesburg at the tail end of 2018 with ...