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Estelle Kokot has left us. She died yesterday, February 16, after suffering a stroke a week previously.
To describe Kokot as a “singer” is both true and a serious understatement. She was a frighteningly intelligent interpreter of vocal material, both other people’s and her own; one of those singers whose phrasing...
Southern African popular music encountering its West African counterparts isn’t new. It started w-a-a-y before Nigerian amapiano became a thing.
Perhaps most famously, Hugh Masekela’s 1968 US hit Grazin’ in the Grass was rooted in and given its distinctive character by the Akan/Ewe rhythms of Ghanaian ou...
There are some musicians – here and worldwide – who loudly adopt the persona of instrumental genius, or philosophical guru, or both, and milk it loudly for all it’s worth in pursuit of brand-building. You can name them without me bothering. There are others who consistently engage in their music with important social issues, compose prolifically and...
All this year’s Grammy Jazz winners deserved their awards. As usual, it’s the shortlists rather than the eventual prizewinners that tell us about the state of international jazz, and it feels pretty healthy and genuinely exciting. But who actually took those gongs home was, as usual, a set of the slightly safer choices. The late Chick Corea, for exa...
This week has been a week of largely good news for jazz. Both the Franschoek/ Montreux and Newtown jazz festivals did eventually publish programmes, supporting potential concert-goers in decision-making. More on that below. One new Joburg jazz club project – Hugh’s – launched, and another – the Orbit re-born – was heralded.