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Siya Makuzeni

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 ...

Randy Weston, Roy Haynes, Wayne Shorter

by David Brown
March 7, 2023

This week, our featured artist is pianist, composer and seeker of his ancestral African connection, Randy Weston; a set featuring one of the most recorded drummers in jazz history, Roy Haynes, from Coltrane to Etta Jones will follow. The show continues with a set of tracks recorded live at San Francisco's fabled night club the Blackhawk ...

On Our Own Clock

By Alabaster DePlume

Label: Mushroom Hour Half Hour / Total Refreshment Centre
Released: 2021
Track listing: How To Make Art In A Pandemic (Part 1); Be The Light; Cuts and Pieces; Ngikhethile; Good Are Good; How To Make Art In A Pandemic (Part 2); 808 O’Clock; Dune Dance; How To Make Art In A Pandemic (Part 3); (Tell The Gods) We Still Building; Revelation.

On Our Own Clock: On Our Own Clock

by Chris May
September 10, 2021

The fourteen-strong international ensemble which recorded On Our Own Clock includes, from London, keyboard player Danalogue from Shabaka Hutchings' The Comet Is Coming and tuba player Theon Cross from Hutchings' Sons Of Kemet; from Dakar, percussionist Yahael Camara Onono and kora player Tarang Cissoko; and, from Johannesburg, keyboardist Zoe Molelekwa, bassist Tebogo Sedumede, trombonist Siya Makuzeni ...

Carlo Mombelli: Angels and Demons

by Seton Hawkins
April 22, 2019

One of music's criminally underrated geniuses, South African electric bassist and composer Carlo Mombelli has carved out a most extraordinary performing and writing career in music. Throughout his four decades as a performer, Mombelli has forged one of the most distinctive electric bass approaches in Jazz, established himself as South Africa's most exceptional composer, and has ...

Aaron Rimbui: Nairobi to New York City

by Seton Hawkins
April 2, 2019

Kenya is noted for an extraordinary array of musical offerings yet its jazz scene has historically been quite slim. However, Nairobi-born pianist Aaron Rimbui may change that dynamic. Drawing on the musical traditions of Kenya and East Africa, Rimbui has established a singular and absolutely arresting approach to jazz piano. With several ...

AZANIA IN MIND

By Dominic Egli

Label: Unit Records
Released: 2018