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Why we need a South African jazz photography archive
We need more books about South African jazz, focusing on both the verbal and the visual, to fully capture and appreciate the unique ‘river of culture we’ve been bequeathed’
A repository for jazz historians
In the face of dwindling writing about South African jazz, bassist and composer Carlo Mombelli’s new offering is a repository for future historians.
Parsing Kabila through rumba
‘Chimurenga Chronic: Who Killed Kabila II’ sees memories of the past battle the future
Radiant child: Jiyane captured in the dead of night
A portrait of the enigmatic but gifted jazz cat and artist is conjured through the eyes of photographer (and admirer) Tseliso Monaheng
A requiem for African identity
It is a feat to have a Mass that draws from a rich but distorted past to create a new musical canon
Beauty in struggle
Jazz and the fight for freedom were central to his life and poetry
Close encounters with alien sex
Alien relations served writer Alice Bo Sheldon well as a metaphor for the gender obtuseness and sexual obsessions of dominant human males on Earth.
Tigerman: Escape from the genredarmes
Speculative fiction, science fiction, fantasy, thriller – who cares about genres when the writing is as good as in the novels reviewed here.
William Parker: Back to bass licks
As the bassist prepares for his Joy of Jazz show, Gwen Ansell unpacks the musician's life and the label “avant-garde”, which he has been linked to.
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