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Remembering Gerald Mac Mckenzie: A Goema Superstar
by Ngwako Malakalaka
Gerald Mac McKenzie, was a composer and bassist who changed Cape Town's Goema music tradition forever. McKenzie grew up in the city's carnival culture and he helped form The Genuines, combining styles like rock, punk, classical and jazz with the music of his childhood. We got together with my musical guest, musician, songwriter and educator including ...
Celebrating Thembi Dunjana's 'God Bless Ikapa, God Bless Mzantsi'
by Ngwako Malakalaka
We celebrated one of South Africa's most extraordinary piano talents this week with Thembi Dunjana. Dunjana has established herself as a star in Cape Town's rich jazz scene. Drawing upon varied inspirations that range from the American influences of John Coltrane Horace Silver, and McCoy Tyner to South African legends like Moses Taiwa Molelekwa and Bheki ...
Zimbabwean Guitarist Louis Mhlanga's New Album
by Ngwako Malakalaka
Louis Mhlanga is a Southern African musician whose passion for the guitar started at the age of 10, imitating the likes of Jimi Hendrix and many other rock musicians from the '60s through to the '70s. He is also a scholar of both the Southern and West African guitar traditions, successfully incorporating the mbira (thumb piano) ...
Belgian Drummer Kobe Gregoir
by Ngwako Malakalaka
Belgian drummer Kobe Gregoir, whose magical collaboration between Dutch/Congolese spoken word artist, Danielle Zawadi, encourages the fusion of spoken word, rap, and jazz as a bi-cultural snapshot of Generation Z, and they influenced by American jazz from the turbulent 1960s with a powerful spoken-word and jazz project representing Africa and Europe at the same time, as ...
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