One of the world’s most respected cultural events — Switzerland’s Montreux Jazz Festival — will soon make its African debut ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some record labels create huge market and financial clout. Some stay much smaller, but punch way above their weight in terms of ...
Louis Tebugo Moholo-Moholo was born in St Monica’s Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa on 10 March 1940. He’d not have appreciated that introduction, once chastising an interviewer: Ah, no! My name is ...
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Trumpeter and singer Hugh Masekela, known as the "father of South African jazz" who used his music in the fight against apartheid, has died from prostate cancer, his family ...
Africa's music festival landscape has evolved into a multi-billion dollar industry, and as we sit here , it's impossible to ...
On June 13 the sad news arrived that legendary South African drummer and composer Louis Moholo-Moholo had passed away at 85 after a long illness. Louis, “Tebogo,” Bra Louis, as he was variously and ...
Nick Ford is a South African jazz artist known for his dynamic and forward-thinking approach to music. Blending jazz traditions with innovative composition, he has established himself both within the ...
Gloria Bosman, the renowned South African jazz singer, composer, and songwriter, has died at the age of 50, leaving the music industry in grief. Her death was confirmed by the South African Music ...
Professor of Global Jazz Studies and Music, Herb Alpert School of Music, University of California, Los Angeles One of the most influential artists in South Africa’s rich history of jazz is Kippie ...
On stage, South African pianist/vocalist Nduduzo Makhathini is less interested in playing music than in repairing the world, performing sonic rituals that nurture, heal and transform audiences and ...