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The Kyle Shepherd Trio: A jazz dance sweetly played
Kyle Shepherd Trio’s new album is packed with originals, covers, homages – and a guilty pleasure
Jazz fans, lend your ears to Asher Gamedze
Building a musical constitution with a 10-piece band requires the musician to go deep
A close listen: Jazz pro, healer and scholar stuns with depth of meaning and musicality
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…
Hearing Coltrane: Like watching a grown man learn how to speak
Watching several of Coltrane’s harmonic and melodic experiments at the cusp of the 1960s, Amiri Baraka emerges frightened, yet energised
Bheki Mseleku: An activist on his own terms
Steve Dyer reflects on jazz musician Bheki Mseleku’s contribution to the canon
Bheki Mseleku: ‘He could play anything in any key’
Neil Gonsalves was formally taught, unlike his colleague Bheki Mseleku, but he was in awe of the genius the of multi-instrumentalist
Dialectic Soul: Rhythms of reason for revolutionary music
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
On our Lists this week: Saint John Coltrane, Gary Zukav and being ‘Black and British’
The Lists this week were compiled by Friday editor Milisuthando Bongela and senior arts writer Kwanele Sosibo
Des’ree throwbacks, Coltrane and the conscience of hip-hop in this week’s Lists
The Lists this week were compiled by Friday editor Milisuthando Bongela and senior arts writer Kwanele Sosibo
Hotstix: Still playing with fire
Whether you call his music township jive, jazz or bubblegum, Sipho ‘Hotstix’ Mabuse has provided the soundtrack for generations, writes Kwanele Sosibo.