At 64, McCoy Mrubata is a commanding presence on the South African jazz scene. A Cape Town native who now resides in Johannesburg along with his wife and four children, Mrubata has won many awards and ...
Duke Ellington rejected it, Charles Mingus was ambivalent about it, and Wynton Marsalis is okay with it. For many African American musicians the word “jazz” is a double-edged term, sometimes ...
His life in music was a struggle against narrow definitions - of ‘race’, instrumental appropriateness and musical genre.
Roughly a month ago, Jazz at Lincoln Center launched its 2025-26 season with a new work by a major American composer and musician conceived in the agreed-upon general style of African music. This past ...
Jazz at Lincoln Center will launch its “Mother Africa” season with the world premiere of “Afro!,” a new commission by managing and artistic director — and jazz legend — Wynton Marsalis, on Sept. 18–20 ...
Tributes pour in for Pops Mohamed, the revered South African musician who dedicated his life to preserving and evolving ...
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 a Wednesday night in Dinkelspiel Auditorium, four vocalists rehearse an arrangement of Cuban singer Celia Cruz, accompanied by a pianist to their right. Through these weekly rehearsals, Stanford ...
George Folunsho Johnson (1916-1975) was born in Nigeria and earned the nickname Ginger due to his reddish hair and freckles. At 18, Ginger Johnson joined the Nigerian Navy, which took him around the ...
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