Kyle Shepherd Trio’s new album is packed with originals, covers, homages – and a guilty pleasure
Building a musical constitution with a 10-piece band requires the musician to go deep
South African pianist and composer Nduduzo Makhathini’s latest album, uNomkhubulwane, is a masterpiece of transcendent spiritual jazz that draws on his Zulu cultural heritage and cosmology
Watching several of Coltrane’s harmonic and melodic experiments at the cusp of the 1960s, Amiri Baraka emerges frightened, yet energised
Steve Dyer reflects on jazz musician Bheki Mseleku’s contribution to the canon
Neil Gonsalves was formally taught, unlike his colleague Bheki Mseleku, but he was in awe of the genius the of multi-instrumentalist
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
The Lists this week were compiled by Friday editor Milisuthando Bongela and senior arts writer Kwanele Sosibo
The Lists this week were compiled by Friday editor Milisuthando Bongela and senior arts writer Kwanele Sosibo
Whether you call his music township jive, jazz or bubblegum, Sipho ‘Hotstix’ Mabuse has provided the soundtrack for generations, writes Kwanele Sosibo.