A shadow the shape of a superstar — that’s the one soul/jazz/electronic musician Taylor McFerrin (35) grew up in. The person casting that...

Musical innovators Coldcut — the duo of Matt Black and Jonathan More — are in Johannesburg for the first time. It’s an overcast late...

I realised yet again that this was another year when I had too few ears and too little time to cope with my ever-expanding obsession with fine...

It was a first date for two friends on November 29 last year – they attended the only show Fred Wesley (72), who played trombone in James...

Legendary UK producer/musician/DJ Charles Webster (50) is headlining Churn mini-festival at the Tweefontein Melkery, Kempton Park, east of Johannesburg....

Despite racial and gender divides that persist in South Africa and its music industry, a number of young musicians are creating...

“Wat ’n gekerm waarna ons moet luister – asseblief man! [What a whining we have to listen to – please man!]” read one SMS to the...

The Future of Soul Music is being connected by phone from Rome, where he is on a European concert tour.

Refusing make-up ahead of his televised presidential debate with John F Kennedy in November 1960 was one of Richard Nixon's many mistakes (for his...

For legendary saxophonist Maceo Parker (72) at least two-thirds of the year is like Christmas. The former James Brown sideman, prominent soloist...

It was certainly a first: being interviewed by an interviewee after finishing the interview with him. Chilean-German DJ Matias Aguayo is not your...

On Tuesday afternoons we boarders were allowed to go to town. Mid-Seventies Balfour in the then Eastern Transvaal was your typical repressive...