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Elusive: The documentary Chasing Trane fails to catch the full John Coltrane.
ARCHIE SHEPP

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

  • Amiri Baraka
4 min read
A wall depicting the artworks of some of Dick Fontaine’s films. (Supplied)
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

‘I wanted to get to the soul’: Dick Fontaine on his approach to documentary filmmaking

After pioneering ‘truth cinema’ and at least 40 documentary films later, British director and producer Dick Fontaine has settled in Durban

  • Sandile Ngidi
8 min read
Wayne Shorter had an emotionally taxing life, which inevitably coloured his tone on the saxophone
ABDULLAH IBRAHIM

Spirituality at the core of sax great’s sound

Oyama Mabandla explores the idea that artistic success has spiritual bliss at its centre.

  • Oyama Mabandla
6 min read