This special section is devoted to South African jazz, which has prospered for several decades and developed a distinctive character all its own. AAJ: SA was created in 2002 and has since been updated ...

This special section is devoted to South African jazz, which has prospered for several decades and developed a distinctive character all its own. AAJ: SA was created in 2002 and has since been updated ...

Each year, thousands of music lovers come together for the international Jazz festival in Cape Town, ranked among the top-ten best jazz festivals in the world. "This is my fourth or fifth year ...

The country has a rich, original relationship to jazz, with American techniques layered into regional traditions and rhythms. Explore 50 years of recordings picked by musicians, poets and writers. By ...

Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Mother Africa season continued last weekend with two concerts featuring South African contemporary pianist and composer Nduduzo Makhathini performing the music of Bheki ...

Duke Ellington rejected it, Charles Mingus was ambivalent about it, and Wynton Marsalis is okay with it. For many African American musicians the word “jazz” is a double-edged term, sometimes ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa jazz trombonist and composer Jonas Gwangwa, whose music powered the anti-apartheid struggle, died on Saturday aged 83, the presidency said. President Cyril ...

Like many of today's top jazz guitarists, Lionel Loueke now makes his home in New York City. But Loueke grew up in what he describes as a family of poor intellectuals in Benin, a small country of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sacré-Cœur Basilica, Paris, France In the roaring twenties, the world buzzed with jazz rhythms and a spirit of liberation. It was ...

South African jazz seems to be having another international moment. Recently, for example, the Blue Note jazz label launched a new imprint, Blue Note Africa dedicated to the continent’s music. Its ...

Jonas Gwangwa—the South African anti-apartheid activist, composer, and jazz trombonist—has died, NPR reports. The news was confirmed by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. “A giant of our ...