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San featuring Zim Ngqawana: San Song
by Eyal Hareuveni
San Song represents the first appearance on record by one of South Africa's greatest musical treasures, saxophonist Zim Ngqawana. The disc, which presented Ngqawana's soulful vision to the jazz world, was recorded in Oslo in May of 1996 with Norwegian saxophonist Bjørn Ole Solberg and a young and rising Norwegian rhythm section. Ngqawana was 37 years ...
Quintet Legacy
By Voice
Label: Sheer Sound
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Sinivile (We Heard You)
2. Sweet Anathi
3. Jessica
4. Blues For Green
5. Phindiile
6. Khumbul'i Khaya
7. Lakutshon' Ilanga
8. Under Pressure
Songs For Our Grandchildren
By Voice
Label: Sheer Sound
Released: 2003
Track listing: Scullery Department; Ida; Days Mandulo; You Are the Way; The Promise; Children in the Rain; #18
St. Mary's; I Remember Billy; Syd's Dilemma.
Vadzimu
By Zim Ngqawana
Label: Sheer Sound
Released: 2003
Track listing: Satire: Umthakathi, Kubi, Gumboot Dance, Interlude, Amagoduka Part 3. Diaspora: Long Waltz to
Freedom, Zanusi, Mozambique, Zimzim, Dirge. Liberation Suite: Tafelberg/Carnival Samba,
Unamaquinga Na, Anthem. Nocturnes: Umoya, Vadzimu, Thula Sizwe.
Abantwana Be Afrika
Label: Sheer Sound
Released: 2003
Track listing: Give Peace a Chance (Een Liedtjie vir Saldanha Bay), Ndizakuxhela Kwamajola, Bantwana Be Afrika (Children of
Africa), George & I, Lakutshon' Ilanga, Dedication (to Daddy Trane & Brother Shorter), Inhlupeko, Tshawe,
Ekuseni, Thula Mama.
Winston Mankunku Ngozi: Abantwana Be Afrika
by AAJ Staff
While legions of South African jazz artists left the country in the '60s to escape apartheid, saxophonist Winston Mankunku Ngozi stayed home, and he paid a heavy price for his choice. Expatriates like Abdullah Ibrahim and Hugh Masekela circulated within American and European jazz communities, earning exposure and recognition. Mankunku labored under a regime which restricted ...
Zim Ngqawana: Vadzimu
by AAJ Staff
Zim Ngqawana has a penchant for naming records after himself. The South African saxophonist followed up his first record, 1998's Zimology, with Zimphonic Suites in 2001. Nothing wrong with a little creative word play, for sure, especially from a man who honestly has little interest in self-promotion or glory. He seems to be using these titles ...
Voice: Songs For Our Grandchildren
by AAJ Staff
Holding true to the identity established on Volume 1 of this series, the South African bop quintet known as Voice has chosen to stick to material that represents their country's jazz legacy on Volume 2: Songs For Our Grandchildren. You wouldn't necessarily appreciate that fact on first listen, given this group's overwhelming literacy in the world ...
Voice: Quintet Legacy
by Trevor MacLaren
Although not the most inventive of contemporary jazz styles, Voice's Quintet Legacy is a remarkable disc that features both great players and unique arrangements. With each listen what may have seemed passive on the surface builds and deepens. The five players represent something of a who's-who of South African jazz, which helps give the ...
