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A talented comedian and serious dramatic actor with a gift for accents, Robbie Coltrane is a huge loss to TV and screen.
Detail from the cover of Isambulo by saxophonist and composer Linda Sikhakhane.
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Zulu spirituality and the legacy of the ancestors, personal and musical, are the concerns of the saxophonist and composer.
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Davis’s 1970 album Bitches Brew turned jazz on its head and paved the way for fusion. More recently, Radiohead cited it as a key influence.
Virtuoso: John Coltrane (tenor sax), Cannonball Adderley (alto sax), Miles Davis (trumpet) and Bill Evans (piano) recording Kind of Blue in 1959.
Pedro Garcia
The release of a John Coltrane movie soundtrack from 1964 has brought jazz movies into focus.
South African rising jazz star, Thabang Tabane.
Lidudumalingani Mqombothi
For a musician anywhere, surviving and prospering within the genre called jazz has never been easy, and it still isn’t.
Q-Tip (L) of A Tribe Called Quest performing in 2013.
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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.
The cover of ‘Seven Steps to heaven’.
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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.
Leon Thomas - from his debut album ‘Spirits Known and Unknown’.
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The protest song “Malcolm’s gone” not only pays tribute to one of the most influential black leaders, but provocatively likens him, as a Muslim and so-called enemy of the state, to Jesus Christ.