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Eight years ago on Friday, world-famous South African trumpeter, composer and social activist Hugh Masekela left us, aged 78. It was too soon – but it would always have been too soon. Because he achieved international as well as domestic fame, we can rejoice that a vast amount of his music is still available. That’s in stark contrast to many equally...


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Welcome to 2026. I hope the year has started better for you than for the rest of the world, which has seen international war crimes and internal human rights abuses continuing to be committed by the Atlantic’s biggliest nation – and remaining unpunished.

In our jazz world, by contrast, there has been some good news.

The Gauteng Jazz Academy in Daveyton, ch...


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It’s that time of year again when everybody decides to shut up shop for the holidays. Me too. This blog will resume on Sunday 18 January 2026.

2025 has been a strange year. At times, it has felt highly inappropriate – almost obscene – to be writing about music while the world permits a genocide to continue in Gaza. Travesty of a ‘peace process’ notwithstanding, it’s...


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Finally, that reproachful pile of CDs on my desk has all been listened to.

(It’s a metaphorical pile; much of the material is digital. But call me a dinosaur: I’d still rather engage with a real CD if I can.)

Th...


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Like several albums only appearing in 2025, Viwe Mkizwana’s Black Child (https://music.apple.com/za/album/black-child/1818557657) had its genesis in the Covid years, when the bassist reflected on what the killing of George Floyd and the #BlackLives Matter...


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