From Angélique Kidjo to Thandiswa Mazwai, this year’s Joy of Jazz programme connects legacy acts with emerging voices across four curated stages ...

The country has a rich, original relationship to jazz, with American techniques layered into regional traditions and rhythms. Explore 50 years of recordings picked by musicians, poets and writers. By ...

Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Mother Africa season continued last weekend with two concerts featuring South African contemporary pianist and composer Nduduzo Makhathini performing the music of Bheki ...

Bokani Dyer is not just a leading figure in contemporary South African jazz, he's also a living link to its history. His father, saxophonist Steve Dyer, was part of Medu, a radical multi-disciplinary ...

This column has regularly strayed from any strict definition of jazz, with the goal of representing creative improvised African music in all its forms. To be honest, if one were to make a list of ...

This year’s edition is deliberately framed around reflection and progression, aligning with two significant milestones in South African history, the 50th anniversary of the 1976 Soweto Uprising and 70 ...

NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 18: (L-R) Marion Felder, Jon Batiste, Vincent Gardner, and Chris Crenshaw perform in a second line during Jazz At Lincoln Center's 30th Anniversary Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center ...

The Cape Town International Jazz Festival (CTIJF) has a long and storied history dating back to the 2000s, and with this year’s edition being the 22nd, it is clear that through all the unexpected ...

Speaking exclusively to the Mail & Guardian through his manager and translator, Salif Keita is overjoyed to be returning to South Africa — a country he describes with deep, almost personal reverence. ...