Millennial musicians are reshaping the South African jazz scene in a culture of open exchange. Hear from pianists Nduduzo Makhathini, Kyle Shepherd and Bokani Dyer.

Everyone knows how jazz, intertwined with the deeper sound of blues, emerged as the indomitable musical voice of black ...

South African jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim laughs when he remembers a gig he played shortly after he moved to America in 1965. “There was this club in New York and I suggested that I bring my ...

Abdullah Ibrahim is the finest jazz pianist-composer that South Africa has ever produced - even in such a jazz-rich country. He is the country's equivalent of the US jazz star Duke Ellington, because ...

South African pianist and singer Nduduzo Makhathini is headed to the Bay Area for shows in Berkeley, ... When he started studying jazz piano at Durban University of Technology, ...

Pianist Nduduzo Makhathini Performs From South Africa Watch Blue Note recording artist Nduduzo Makhathini and vocalist ... jazz fans and critics alike jammed themselves into the Zürcher Gallery ...

On Friday and Saturday, April 26-27, luminous South African vocalist, composer, dancer and visual artist and composer Melanie Scholtz and Kenyan pianist Aaron Rimbui celebrate the memory of Miriam ...

Dollar Brand marries South African jazz vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin. He plays the Newport Jazz Festival and then tours the United States for the first time. He leads the Duke Ellington Orchestra for ...

For Randy Weston, Africa was the wellspring of music — the spiritual and rhythmic source of blues, African American spirituals, samba, bossa nova and, above all, jazz. Weston, who was 92 when he ...

Randy Weston, an esteemed pianist whose music and scholarship advanced the argument — now broadly accepted — that jazz is, at its core, an African music, died Saturday at his home in New York.

He was a jazz great who wanted to return to the land of his birth, but Bheki Mseleku never made it home. He died in London a week before he was due to return to South Africa. He was 53. The jazz ...