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“Playing covers” is sometimes a term of abuse in music writing. “Nothing original to say.” “Riding on the success of other people’s music.” “One step away from muzak.”
And sometimes, that’s deserved. The tired reprises of 80s/90s pop played under the rubber chicken of a company dinner don’t do anything except mute the muttered insults about the boss. But, hey, it’s ...
Remember struggle songs? For those who don’t, they were a way of letting out all the pain and fury and turmoil of oppression – but doing it in a way that brought you into active communion with like-minded others, and so, without ever minimising the hurt, brought determination, joy and hope too. Many kinds of collective music – free jazz, radical funk, conscious soul, righteou...
OK, I surrender.
Among readers who know me personally (yes, I confess this blog’s community is that small!) a growing number are nagging me about why I don’t write more often about overseas jazz. That won’t cause me to change my deliberate blog policy of SA jazz first – not because I have anything against overseas players, but because, still, so few...
A second Franschoek Montreux Jazz Festival (https://mjfsa.com/) announcement has just emerged, leaving no doubt that whoever is curating this event knows what’s happening in jazz. To the already-announced artists are added some dream teams, local and international. The Brother Kujenga brings together...
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, diction and timing always make you hear even familia...