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Who cares what it is? Celebrate jazz with the world
It’s almost time for International Jazz Day — 30 April — and there will be events in 190 countries where it will not be necessary to gatekeep about who and what jazz is — the…
Greg Tate: Possessed by Mingus
When news of the passing of pre-eminent cultural critic Greg Tate reverberated around the globe, poet, choreographer and essayist Harmony Holiday composed an ode to his legacy
Lewis Nkosi and All the Things We Could Be by Now if We Were Free
The focus of a new book on Lewis Nkosi is his plays rather than his tsotsi-like critiques
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.