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The bassist and composer reflects on 40 years in music and his newly released album

Swiss musician Banz Oester will be visiting South Africa with his quartet The Rainmakers to promote their new album

This is a first kind of musical that pays homage to all the artists who come from Marabastad.

In order to have a better and informed understanding of the present and how we got here, we have to look at the footprints of history from time to time.

Los Angeles, New York and more: Local jazz musician Nduduzo Makhathini is taking the United States by storm with his incredible talent.

Nduduzo Makhathini, one of South Africa’s leading pianists will perform a sequence of concerts, Singing as a way of Being in the World, at Glenelly Estate in Stellenbosch this weekend (Friday 11 to Sunday 13 March).

The drummer has fond memories of his childhood home in Mdantsane, where his grandmother allowed him the freedom to immerse himself in music. Hence his latest album is dedicated to her.



Though he’s been a crucial figure on the scene for years, the drummer is only now achieving the recognition he’s long deserved.

November 30 marked what would have been Blue Note member Johnny Mbizo Dyanis’ 76th birthday (some say 78th) — here, I take a journey through conversation with the living and departed jazz musicians and students on impression of the Afrofuturistic bass master.

The night of jazz and classical music gave me hope that it will take more than a virus, with all its alphabetical variants, to silence the music industry.