Africa's music festival landscape has evolved into a multi-billion dollar industry, and as we sit here , it's impossible to ...

The Center for Advanced Study and the University of Illinois Press hosted panelists Darius and Catherine Brubeck, who pioneered the first jazz education program in apartheid South Africa. The Brubecks ...

Pianist/composer Nduduzo Makhathini and vocalist Vuyo Sotashe performed music by jazz master Bheki Mseleku and Makhathini last week at Jazz at Lincoln Center, part of JALC’s “Mother Africa” season.

Louis Tebugo Moholo-Moholo was born in St Monica’s Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa on 10 March 1940. He’d not have appreciated that introduction, once chastising an interviewer: Ah, no! My name is ...

“Nedbank is proud to stand alongside the first African edition of the Montreux Jazz Festival. Franschhoek represents ...

The Montreux Jazz Festival Franschhoek (MJFSA) has announced the first group of official partners supporting its inaugural ...

Professor of Global Jazz Studies and Music, Herb Alpert School of Music, University of California, Los Angeles One of the most influential artists in South Africa’s rich history of jazz is Kippie ...

On June 13 the sad news arrived that legendary South African drummer and composer Louis Moholo-Moholo had passed away at 85 after a long illness. Louis, “Tebogo,” Bra Louis, as he was variously and ...

(audience applauds) - Did you grow up listening to Alicia Keys and Britney Spears in South Africa? You studied jazz here in Boston, at New England Conservatory, but I'm wondering what the South ...

Creating connections. South African music : The lion sleeps tonight ; Twentieth-century political history ; Twentieth-century entertainment history : live and mediated ; Graceland (1986) : world music ...

Nick Ford is a South African jazz artist known for his dynamic and forward-thinking approach to music. Blending jazz traditions with innovative composition, he has established himself both within the ...

The January 15-17 show pays tribute to the influence of African music on the work of renowned jazz artist Duke Ellington. We ...