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Ndabo Zulu

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 ...

Kris Davis Trio, Propulsion and Porchbone

by Maurice Hogue
September 24, 2024

This week features the first trio recording by pianist Kris Davis in ten years--Run The Gauntlet. It's on her own label, Pyroclastic, and of course it's excellent. The potent avant-garde scene of Chicago emerges on Propulsion in the form of a new quartet led by saxophonist Dave Rempis, while the free jazz scene of NYC contributes ...

Ches Smith, Damasiewicz / Wania, Fujii / Ono & Roberto Ottaviano

by Maurice Hogue
February 26, 2024

Plenty of genre-stretching music in this episode, from drummer Ches Smith's new Laugh Ash, vocalist Amirtha Kidambi & Elder Ones and their drive to make their music reflect the need for protest, and the Ewart/Asplin/Ricks Trio, featuring master AACM reedist Douglas Ewart, recorded live at BYU. Polish trumpeter Piotr Damasiewicz hooks up with fellow Pole, the ...

Blk Elijah & The Children of Meroë

By Thandi Ntuli

Label: Ndlela Music
Released: 2022