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“The journey of being Bheki Mseleku’s student wasn’t just about music”.

Early next month, drummer/composer Kesivan Naidoo and the current incarnation of his outfit The Lights will release their first new album for a dozen years, We Dance at Home. (I’ll add the link when sales open.)

While maintaining the driving kinetic energy that has characteris...

So, following on the categorical wierdnesses of the SAMAs for jazz (see: https://sisgwenjazz.wordpress.com/2026/06/28/skyjacks-let-the-sky-open-music-for-an-undivided-humanity/), has come the announcement of the Mzan...

One of Cape Town’s finest pianists turns 80 today, 9 July. Ibrahim Khalil Shihab is a child of Cape Town’s Schilder dynasty whose musical career has rang...

On June 29 at Artscape in Cape Town, people gathered to play and pay tribute to a jazz pianist whose music was embraced by the world as quintessentially South African; whose song, Mannenberg, was an unofficial natio...

Google “Skyjack” and the first link that pops up is for a supplier of construction hoists. But when you think about it, that’s not entirely inappropriate, because the music of the 13-year-old Swiss/South African collaboration definitely carries a sense of soaring flight.

The title of their fourth studio album, Let the Sky Open Under Your Feet (the title dra...