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Vuma Levin: Musical Painting

Read "Vuma Levin: Musical Painting" reviewed by Seton Hawkins


South African guitarist and composer Vuma Levin has been receiving significant accolades in local and international circles, and it's easy to see why. A thoughtful, intelligent improviser and bandleader, Levin is also a highly thought-provoking composer, one intent on exploring the music's role in commenting on and shaping societal discourse. Indeed, with last year's ...

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Nduduzo Makhathini: Jazz Is a Shared Memory

Read "Nduduzo Makhathini: Jazz Is a Shared Memory" reviewed by Seton Hawkins


It can be overwhelming to keep up with the artistic growth, creative reach, and constant development that marks the career of Nduduzo Makhathini. In the past four years, he has released eight solo albums, all exploring remarkably different territories and demonstrating a ceaselessly probing mind and inventive creative urge. In addition to that, he has emerged ...

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Take Five With Shane Cooper

Read "Take Five With Shane Cooper" reviewed by Shane Cooper


Meet Shane Cooper:Shane Cooper is a bassist, composer, and producer from Cape Town, South Africa. Oscillations, with his quintet, is due to be launched on August 22, 2013 at Cape Town's Mahogany Room. In 2012, he was selected as the Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz. Has he been a member of Babu (SAMA ...

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Jason Reolon: Raising the Bar

Read "Jason Reolon: Raising the Bar" reviewed by Seton Hawkins


South Africa may well be in the midst of its third jazz renaissance. While the late 1950s saw the rise of legendary artists such as Kippie Moeketsi, Abdullah Ibrahim, and Philip Tabane, the early 1990s marked the emergence of trailblazers Moses Taiwa Molelekwa and Zim Ngqawana. The past five years have born witness to a surge ...

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South African Pianist Jason Reolon Interviewed at All About Jazz...And More!

South African Pianist Jason Reolon Interviewed at All About Jazz...And More!

South Africa may well be in the midst of its third jazz renaissance. While the late 1950s saw the rise of legendary artists such as Kippie Moeketsi, Abdullah Ibrahim, and Philip Tabane, the early 1990s marked the emergence of trailblazers Moses Taiwa Molelekwa and Zim Ngqawana. The past five years have born witness to a surge ...

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Zim Ngqawana: Sound, Song, and Humanity

Read "Zim Ngqawana: Sound, Song, and Humanity" reviewed by AAJ Staff


(Ed. note: we're celebrating the life and music of Zim Ngqawana by reprinting this 2002 interview. Ngqawana passed away in Johannesburg, after suffering a stroke on May 10th. He was 52.) For Zim Ngqawana, citizenship is a relative concept. He may be a South African, but he insists that he is first and foremost ...

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Requiem for Zim Ngqawana (1959-2011)

Requiem for Zim Ngqawana (1959-2011)

By Thomas Rome From profoundest loss I struggle to speak of the passing of one of the jazz world's most significant personalities of his generation. South African saxophonist Zim Ngqawana, 51, left us far too early last night at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, victim of a stroke. Nowhere do the strikingly parallel cultural identities of ...

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News: Obituary

Jazz Genius Zim Ngqawana dies at 52

Jazz Genius Zim Ngqawana dies at 52

South African musician Zim Ngqawana has died in the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Hospital after suffering a stroke on Monday. He was 52. Manager Ayanda Nhlapo said Ngqawana, who played the flute and saxophone, had been rehearsing at his home in Troyeville for a show at Wits on the weekend when he had the stroke. “I think ...

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Article: Live Review

Search and Restore Benefit: A Round Robin of Duo Improvisations

Read "Search and Restore Benefit: A Round Robin of Duo Improvisations" reviewed by Daniel Lehner


There's an old conundrum about a man with an axe. He broke the head chopping at a particularly stubborn branch and replaced it. Months later, he broke the handle and replaced that. The question goes: Does he have the same axe? It's a philosophical question that deals with how parts interrelate with a whole. Now imagine ...

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Live at Bird's Eye

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Released: 2008
Track listing: 01. Afro Blue (Mongo Santamaria) - 18:05; 02. Qula Kwedini - 4:51; 03. Biological Warfare - 18:07; 04. Meditation #1 - 2:58; 05. Dj Zim Suite - 21:09; 06. Rap - 5:38; 07. Hipmonk - 6:35. Tutti i brani sono composti da Zimology, eccetto dove indicato.


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