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

David was a flute-player, an art lover and a go-to osteopath for dancers

On Saturday afternoon, armed men terrorised the community in Maureen Way, Lost City, in Tafelsig. Five gunmen went on a shooting spree, killing four men between the ages of 30 and 64. The victims were shot at close range, suggesting that they were deliberately targeted. The victims were sitting in front of their homes when they were taken by surprise by the gunmen in what seemed to be a coordinated attack. They were all shot in the head and the upper body. A fifth victim survived. The shooting came days after 13-year-old Tamir Mitchells, a Grade 8 pupil at Beacon Hill High, and Morgan Munnik ...

Etuk Ubong Breaks New Ground in Afro-Jazz Etuk Ubong is a trumpetist, composer, arranger and bandleader from Lagos, Nigeria. Born in Akwa Ibom State in southeastern Nigeria, he was raised in Lagos where he showed early signs as a musical prodigy. He went on to perform with highlife legend Victor Olaiya and Afrobeat torch-bearer Femi Kuti. Today, Ubong leads his own band, and is among the most innovative, groundbreaking rising stars in African jazz. His 2020 album Africa Today was recorded direct-to-disc for the Night Dreamer label in Holland, and the album is featured on Afropop Worldwide �...

WHEN Betty Accorsi arrived in London to study jazz saxophone at Trinity Laban College, she found a home in Greenwich in the shadow of the renowned tea clipper the Cutty Sark. For Accorsi, the dry-docked hulk “represented a sense of belonging to the greater, more diverse community that I found in London.” Born in Milan in 1989, she initially studied classical saxophone but it was two jazz saxophonists who most inspired her: “Wayne Shorter and his beautiful playing of the soprano saxophone and also his ability to compose. “And I love the English saxophonist John Surman for his extraordi...