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Sipho Gumede

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, ...

Two Tenors South Africa Style

by Chris May
November 28, 2023

The latest batch of albums from Canada's We Are Busy Bodies label, which specialises in vinyl reissues of South African jazz, spotlights saxophonists Winston Mankunku Ngozi and Mike Makhalemele, separately and together, on three discs originally released in 1975 and 1976. Ngozi and Makhalemele both opted to remain in South Africa during the apartheid era, thus ...

African Sunrise

By Sipho Gumede

Label: Sheer Sound
Released: 2005
Track listing: Straight Home; Phambili; A Whisper; African Sunrise; Peacocks Today, Feather Dusters Tomorrow; Song for a Friend; Welcome Home; Song for Johnny Dyani; Limpopo Jive; Mamaye; Nikiwe.

Sipho Gumede: African Sunrise

by Seton Hawkins
November 18, 2005

Listening to the hauntingly beautiful African Sunrise, released several months after Sipho Gumede's death, one can understand why Gumede is held up as one of South Africa's great musicians. His fat, warm bass sound, his compositional gifts, his genre-defying musical creativity, and his skills as a band leader are all in full bloom here.The ...

Village Dance & More

By Sipho Gumede

Label: Gallo Records
Released: 2001

Thank You For Listening

By Sipho Gumede

Label: Gallo Records
Released: 1990