Music
Cool jazz, free jazz and evolving jazz conventions
By Zuko Komisa The late 1940s came with a changing tide that gave birth to an original style of jazz music called cool jazz, a sound […]
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What we can learn from Miles Davis’ embodying “The Cool”
By Zuko Komisa Looking back in the last few decades, one can’t ignore the effortless swag that came with the jazz ensembles as they cresendo’d melodic […]
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To Bra Hugh, from the mouths of babes
By Gomolemo Lesejane The time is 21:22 in Johannesburg and I’m finally home from work: bra-less and void of the many things that had demanded my […]
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What’s the Jazz Soundtrack to Your Life?
By Nomali Cele Jazz, much like other music genres, has eras and each era is marked by its stars and the music they made. Swing jazz […]
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Best of Kaya Live and Unplugged
Writer Mohale Mashigo shares how Jazz scored her family’s holidays
By Mohale Mashigo The record library was huge by my eight-year-old standards; my father’s job was to receive music from record labels, he would then catalogue […]
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Artists Jazz Forgot
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it […]
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