Tag: South African Jazz
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UCT Jazz Festival
The annual UCT Jazz Festival, arranged by South African College of Music Jazz staff, features performances by the UCT Big Band and guests, a jazz vocal showcase, a jazz composers’ showcase and selected Jazz ensembles. The festival consists of evening concerts in the Baxter Concert Hall at 7pm and FREE lunch hour Library Desk concerts…
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Liv Die (Blues, Jazz)
Morning Melodies is a programme that focuses on presenting professional and affordable morning concerts to the senior citizens of the Western Cape.
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Hilton Schilder Trio Hilton Schilder Trio
Genius is another way to describe this cheerful composer, musician, multi instrumentalist, artist, writer and raconteur Hilton Schilder. Join us at the Obscene Parrot with a great band in Kanu Ntshoko and Clayton Pretorious for a lovely evening of jazz.
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Andre Leo’s Porcelain Fang
André Leo is a Cape Town-born musician and record producer residing in Berlin since 2018. From 2014 – 2019, he formed one half of the dream-noise duo, Medicine Boy, alongside his friend Lucy Kruger, with whom he still frequently collaborates. 2020 saw the birth of Wombed which started as a solo concept but evolved into…
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Sazi Dlamini
Sazi ne SKOKIANA, the guitar-led quartet will play a one-off concert at The Commons (Cape Town) on Wednesday 26 March. SKOKIANA was co-founded by Sazi Dlamini with fellow jazz-influenced township students at the University of Natal Department of Music. The band has been a feature of Durban jazz since 1991. Listen to the band’s signature…
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Luyolo Lenga
Implanting a conscious appreciation of the spiritual and socio-economic, Mdantsane born composer, author and music arranger, Luyolo Lenga, pays homage to the isiXhosa language; accessing ancestral sounds from ancient bow and percussion instruments, utilizing classical techniques that traverse through culture and time by gathering elements of isingqi sakwantu, jazz and a range of contemporary music…
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Silo Concerts – Nduduzo Makhatini
Nduduzo Makhathini is a scholar and musicologist at the University of KwaZulu Natal school of the arts. Makhathini has recently published two papers with peer review journals, Bheki Mseleku: Towards a Biography (2018), and Jazz in Postcolonial South Africa: Tracing the Politics of ‘Formal’ and ‘Informal’ (2021). His doctoral dissertation, which he obtained from Stellenbosch…
