Music
Hip hop samples of Jazz
By Nomali Cele Hip hop’s calling card, the thing that grounds it as a black art, is probably the ways it borrows from other black arts […]
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Understanding Signature Jazz soundscape instruments
By Zuko Komisa The evolution of Jazz as we know it came full circle in the 1950s through innovators we still look to for inspiration and […]
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Reflecting on the role Jazz played for Activism and Social Justice.
By Zuko Komisa At the height of the then Civil Rights Movement, the relevance of the Jazz genre rose to prominance as the music that made […]
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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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