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Gwen Ansell
The year the music died — almost
Friday
Gwen Ansell
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11 Dec 2020
Half of the participants in a recent study on the live music industry are likely to quit their craft
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Myesha Jenkins: A sister who always said it with feeling
Friday
Gwen Ansell
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10 Sep 2020
Poet and activist Myesha Jenkins (1948-2020) took her craft, including her teaching, extremely seriously
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A place called home: Jazz and the new normal at the National Arts Festival
Friday
Gwen Ansell
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8 Jul 2020
Several jazz offerings at the virtual festival focus on journeys and identity
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Dialectic Soul: Rhythms of reason for revolutionary music
Friday
Gwen Ansell
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12 May 2020
Drummer Asher Gamedze’s approach to making music is through a collective process bringing together not only each band member’s response to ideas but also their skills
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Billy Monama: stringing together South African guitar history
Article
Gwen Ansell
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6 May 2020
The guitarist’s book, Introduction to South African Guitar Style: Volume One is due to be published at the end of the year
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Vuma Levin initiates his cycle
Article
Gwen Ansell
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3 Feb 2020
The guitarist is growing into his groove, with a new concept album launching soon
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A repository for jazz historians
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Gwen Ansell
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13 Dec 2019
In the face of dwindling writing about South African jazz, bassist and composer Carlo Mombelli’s new offering is a repository for future historians.
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Parsing Kabila through rumba
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Gwen Ansell
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1 Nov 2019
‘Chimurenga Chronic: Who Killed Kabila II’ sees memories of the past battle the future
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A requiem for African identity
Article
Gwen Ansell
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9 Feb 2018
It is a feat to have a Mass that draws from a rich but distorted past to create a new musical canon
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The making of Bra Hugh
Article
Gwen Ansell
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23 Jan 2018
Listening through that half-century of disks, the nature and scope of the trumpeter’s achievement becomes clear. Masekela had two early horn heroes.
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Beauty in struggle
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Gwen Ansell
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12 Jan 2018
Jazz and the fight for freedom were central to his life and poetry
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What the lives of two SA music giants tell us about culture under apartheid
Article
Gwen Ansell
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13 Jul 2017
For those who love and listen – really listen – the legacy of both men will live on equally in the music they made
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