Victor Abimbola Olaiya took up highlife music in the late 1950s and combined it with the trumpet to improve on its texture and aesthetic quality.
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The Tariff Board was told that if women could buy music that was cheap they would buy music that was dirty.
The release of a John Coltrane movie soundtrack from 1964 has brought jazz movies into focus.
The politics of Jonas Gwangwa’s music have stayed constant over the years, and are also apparent in the eight albums he has released in South Africa since returning from 30 years of exile.
Mac Rebennack took the stage name Dr John and a persona based on a real-life voodoo prince.
From spirituals about the trials of slavery to the fight for civil rights and the modern rhythms of swing music, Duke Ellington told a story about black life that was both beautiful and complex.
Muslims are not new to America. The first Muslims came as slaves and left a deep influence on a host of music genres, such as the blues and jazz.
Jazz used to be experienced on a dance floor. But over time, it became something to dissect and analyze.
Behind the wordless language of the jazz greats.
For a musician anywhere, surviving and prospering within the genre called jazz has never been easy, and it still isn’t.
Philip Tabane was unlike any other musician. His music was intimately woven into his cosmology and spirituality.
A greater synergy between academics and practitioners is needed to progress hip hop for it to be taken seriously as a core area for study.
Explorations of form and sound in jazz are essentially political. They challenge the status quo in society by interrogating categories and barriers.
South African jazz veteran Jonas Gwangwa has been getting recognition for the pivotal role he played in ‘singing down apartheid.’
Veteran Ethiopian jazz musician Mulatu Astatke continues to have an extraordinary mobility and exposure to a wide range of musical sounds.
Hugh Masekela’s itinerary-in-exile was loud and clear in his songs.
Scientists are beginning to understand why certain drugs and musical genres are natural partners.
Female jazz musicians are taking a stand against entrenched sexism within the genre.
Keorapetse Kgositsile was made South Africa’s national poet laureate in 2006, the only person to have been given the honour.
The story of jazz in the ANC army-in-exile, Umkhonto we Sizwe culture is far more nuanced – and positive – than depicted in a new film.
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