Joy of Jazz takes place in Johannesburg this weekend.
Local musician follows in the footsteps of the jazz greats with his cool sounds and dress
Kendrick Lamar’s latest album drops down the charts and moves up our reviewers’ legendary list
The Bay Area writer and art curator Kwadwo Duane Deterville shares his thoughts on Greg Tate’s legacy and gifts to Black culture in the 20th entury
Watching several of Coltrane’s harmonic and melodic experiments at the cusp of the 1960s, Amiri Baraka emerges frightened, yet energised
Film festival screens documentaries of several celebrities and some local artists
Paul Simon’s ‘Graceland’ took local musicians to the world and Miles Davis trumpeted ‘Tutu’
The Lists this week were compiled by Friday editor Milisuthando Bongela, arts writer Kwanele Sosibo and author and freelance writer Bongani Madondo.
Miles Davis biopic is another example of a black artist’s legacy used as Hollywood fodder.
The recent and sudden revision of Thabo Mbeki’s place in history reminds Charles Leonard of the re-evaluation of jazz legend Miles Davis’s legacy
Hilly Kristal, the founder of New York punk rock club CBGB, which helped make the Ramones, Blondie and Talking Heads stars, has died at age 75, his daughter said on Wednesday. Kristal died on Tuesday from complications of lung cancer, his daughter, Lisa Kristal Burgman, said.
Whether you call his music township jive, jazz or bubblegum, Sipho ‘Hotstix’ Mabuse has provided the soundtrack for generations, writes Kwanele Sosibo.