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Yesterday, April 27, marked Freedom Day in South Africa. Thursday April 30 will be International Jazz Day (you can find some of the South African events listed at https://jazzday.com/events/south-africa/, including, of course, the opening of the Prince Albert Journey to Jazz Fes...

A music ecosystem is never only its “stars”.

Profile goes to those who sp...

This happens to me at least half a dozen times a year. It happened again last week.

A musician – usually a mature, accomplished musician, sometimes with international as well as local laurels – writes to me. They’ve been approached by a local state school, often in the area where they grew up. Can they help with music? The school is in an area with no facilities an...

Much fuss this week about the proposed new school history curriculum. Prof Jonathan Jansen called it “anti-intellectual and soul-deadening” (https://www.news24.com/southafrica/educat...

The Standard Bank Young Artists Awards introduced a “jazz” category only in 2006. In the two decades since, there hasn’t been a mis-step in spotting musicians who have not only skill but something significant to say: about music, and often about the society where music is made.

It’s increasingly puzzling, though, what that “jazz/music” category split really means. T...