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Article: Album Review

Shabaka And The Ancestors: We Are Sent Here by History

Read "We Are Sent Here by History" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


Even as Shabaka Hutchings moves the evolution of jazz forward, We Are Sent Here By History laments the present-day conditions of conflict, suffering, parity, and the struggle to survive. The saxophonist's breakthrough album came with his Sons of Kemet on Your Queen Is A Reptile (Impulse! Records, 2018). He also leads the jazz/electronica hybrid The Comet ...

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Article: Interview

Sisonke Xonti: A Leap of Faith

Read "Sisonke Xonti: A Leap of Faith" reviewed by Seton Hawkins


Known for years as an outstanding saxophonist and first-call collaborator in a variety of top South African Jazz ensembles, in recent years Sisonke Xonti has rightly earned acclaimed for his own talents as a bandleader and a composer. Notably, Xonti's 2017 debut release Iyonde not only provided a stellar showcase for his superlative horn ...

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Exiled

Label: Ndlela Music Company
Released: 2018
Track listing: DISC ONE: #1 The Void (Intro) #2 Exiled #3 Freefall #4 Abyssinia (Intro) #5 Abyssinia (feat. Tlale Makhene) #6 What's Left? #7 Umthandazo Womzali #8 The Void (feat. Lebo Mashile) DISC TWO: #9 It's Complicated, Pt. 1 (feat. Vuyo Sotashe) #10 It's Complicated, Pt. 2 #11 Rainbow (Skit) #12 New Way #13 13 #14 Cosmic Light (Benji's Meditation) #15 Cosmic Light

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Jazz of the New South Africa, Part Two

Read "Jazz of the New South Africa, Part Two" reviewed by Seton Hawkins


South Africa celebrated its first democratic elections in April 1994, entering a new phase of its history. During that decade, an incredible new array of Jazz artists emerged in the country, exploring Jazz's role in the New South Africa. Playlist Hilton Schilder “Email to the Ancestors" from No Turning Back (Mountain Records) 1:11 ...

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Thandi Ntuli

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Exploring the fullness of who she is – who we are – in her personal and collaborative projects, Thandi Ntuli negotiates a wide palette of sound and genre. This approach is a proud embracing of having grown up with the family lore of a classical singer aunt, after whom she is named; an uncle (Selby Ntuli) who was a member of Afro-rock band Harari; and a grandfather (Levi Godlib Ntuli) who – while living with his young family in 1940s Sophiatown, a cultural hub not unlike 1920s Harlem in New York – fostered among his children a tradition of composing, playing and singing music together. This tradition still lives on.

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Article: Interview

Thandi Ntuli: On Exile

Read "Thandi Ntuli: On Exile" reviewed by Seton Hawkins


South African pianist, composer, and vocalist Thandi Ntuli entered 2018 not with a bang, but with a thermonuclear blast. At the close of 2017, she had been selected as the recipient of the 2018 Standard Bank Young Artist Award in Jazz, anointing her as the latest figure in an incredible lineage of South African ...

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Bokani Dyer: African Piano

Read "Bokani Dyer: African Piano" reviewed by Seton Hawkins


Throughout this decade, pianist, composer, and bandleader Bokani Dyer has stood as one of the most formidable and creative keyboard talents in South Africa today. Raised in a musical family--his father is the legendary saxophonist Steve Dyer--Bokani Dyer quickly demonstrated an extraordinary musical vision and identity of his own. Indeed, albums of his, notably Emancipate the ...

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The Offering

Label: Thandi Ntuli
Released: 2014
Track listing: #1 Lonely Heart #2 Contemplation #3 201AA #4 Umthandazo #5 Uz'ubuye (Intro) #6 Uz'ubuye #7 H.T #8 The Offering #9 Sangare #10 Love Remembers #11 In Between Spaces


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