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The year is galloping towards December break-time and I still have a terrifyingly large pile of 2025 music (yes, wherever possible I still prefer CDs) to review. So, this week and next I’m going to attempt a catch-up, first of South African and next week of some international music that ought to be on your gift list – to yourself, if nobody else. The reviews will – apologies ...
When the late Philip Tabane famously declared “I don’t play like Miles; Miles plays like me” he was, as usual, wrapping up many messages in one terse comment.
First, he was rejecting the racist stereotype that if an African musician did anything adventurous, it must have been learned from the West. That was not only the view of Americans with little beyond vague, ex...
A marketer’s one-line blurb for Steve Dyer’s 11th album, Multipolar, out on October 31 (https://stevedyer.bandcamp.com/album/multipolar) might justifiably read: “If you like John Coltrane, you’ll love this.”
class="alignright size-large is-resized"...Unthinkingly labelling something “traditional” risks falling into all kinds of racist traps. As with the Orientalism that Edward Said dissected, it buys and forwards the myth that some societies have never innovated, simply following without question paths laid down in the misty ancient days. We modern folks can be fascinated by – and even fall in love with – but never fully ...
