At 64, McCoy Mrubata is a commanding presence on the South African jazz scene. A Cape Town native who now resides in Johannesburg along with his wife and four children, Mrubata has won many awards and ...

Tresor reflects on a decade of award-winning African pop, his groundbreaking collaborations with Drake and Hugh Masekela and the music that inspires him today ...

By the 1950s and ’60s, jazz had become a global art form. American musicians toured widely, sometimes as part of U.S. State ...

Amapiano - a genre born in South Africa's townships during the previous decade -- has rapidly evolved from a local blend of jazz and house music with traditional log drums into a pan-African ...

Telcom giant Safaricom has redesigned its jazz programme with the introduction of a series of monthly musical events that will serve as a prelude to the annual Safaricom International Jazz Festival.

Duke Ellington rejected it, Charles Mingus was ambivalent about it, and Wynton Marsalis is okay with it. For many African American musicians the word “jazz” is a double-edged term, sometimes ...

Decolonization gets the ultimate needle-drop treatment in the documentary “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” from Belgian filmmaker Johan Grimonprez. It’s a dazzling, tune-filled collage of images, words ...