Davis’s ability to innovate and incorporate other genres into his jazz has left a lasting impact on music.
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The revered trombonist, composer and cultural activist never wished to be ‘the state composer’ but remained political until the end, in service of the people.
Though he lived hard and died young, Bird’s genre-busting style of sax playing ignited jazz’s bebop revolution.
The release of a John Coltrane movie soundtrack from 1964 has brought jazz movies into focus.
For a musician anywhere, surviving and prospering within the genre called jazz has never been easy, and it still isn’t.
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.
South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela made an impact across the world during his decades-long musical career.
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Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria
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Associate professor in Cultural Studies and English, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Professor of Music (post-1900), University of Glasgow
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Ph.D. fellow in European Research Council (ERC) project "Apartheid- The Global Itinerary: South African Cultural Formations in Transnational Circulation 1948-1990", led by Prof. Louise Bethlehem, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Senior Lecturer, York St John University
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G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
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Chair Professor of Musicology: Music and Media, Utrecht University
