Since its launch in South Africa, Spotify has become a hub for music lovers, with user-generated playlists seeing remarkable growth. In September 2019, there were around 3 billion playlists on the ...

Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria As a researcher who documents historical and current South African jazz and popular music, I believe Mdunyelwa merits ...

Nduduzo Makhathini, a South African jazz pianist and traditional healer, blends modern jazz with Zulu spirituality, creating ...

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 ...

Some record labels create huge market and financial clout. Some stay much smaller, but punch way above their weight in terms of their impact on the spirit of a country’s music. For South Africa, one ...

31. Jazz, TX The chatter and buzz of the food hall in the Pearl’s Bottling Department building fades away completely when patrons head for the cellar to find hot and cool jazz at piano man Doc Watkins ...

What do you do in a country racked by racial strife and division to try to help make things better? That’s the question that Darius and Catherine Brubeck faced in her native South Africa in the midst ...

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 ...