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Article: African Jazz

The Life and Times of South African Jazz

by Philip Songa
June 16, 2026

This article was first published on All About Jazz in January 2004. South Africa has always been a little different from other countries on the African continent. That uniqueness has extended in many directions, but South Africa (SA) is uniquely remembered in the world as the only country to have suffered from apartheid. Despite, ...

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Jika

By Winston Mankunku Ngozi

Label: Nkomo Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Wajikeleza; Crossroads Crossroads; That Man There; Yho! Yho!; Tula Sana; Asiyapo; Ntyilo Ntyilo; Mikes Mood; I Wish I Knew.

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Winston Mankunku and Mike Perry: Jika

by AAJ Staff
July 10, 2002

Jika, the first full-fledged collaboration bewteen South African saxophonist Mankunku and keyboard player Mike Perry, is an unqualified success. As an authentic statement, this record demands that you accept it on its own terms. That's not difficult, given the understated, simmering pulse that runs throughout--and the soaring, open melodies which give it shape. But on the ...

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Winston Mankunku: Molo Africa

Read "Molo Africa" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
June 10, 2002

If saxophonist Winston Mankunku's 1968 masterpiece Yakhal'Inkomo was a high point for modern jazz, then 1998's Molo Africa represents an unabashed retreat to his South African roots. In case you're wondering, those roots run deep. (Think mbaqanga if you're familiar with South African styles.) Molo Africa is a celebration of melody in uncomplicated harmonic settings, pulling ...