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The band was founded in the 1980s and played 1950s and 1960s South African jazz in an attempt to recreate the fun of that era's live performances. During the 1950s and 60s, Dorkay House provided a haven for South African music legends, including artists like Dollar Brand , Kippie Moeketsi , Miriam Makeba , Ntemi Edmund Piliso, Dudu Pukwana ...
Hugh Masekela. Hugh Ramapolo Masekela (4 April 1939 – 23 January 2018) [ 1 ] was a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, singer and composer who was described as "the father of South African jazz ". Masekela was known for his jazz compositions and for writing well-known anti-apartheid songs such as " Soweto Blues " and " Bring ...
Johnny Mbizo Dyani (30 November 1945 – 24 October 1986) was a South African jazz double bassist, vocalist and pianist, who, in addition to being a key member of The Blue Notes, played with such international musicians as Don Cherry, Steve Lacy, David Murray, Finnish guitar player Jukka Syrenius, Pierre Dørge, Peter Brötzmann, Mal Waldron, fellow South African Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim ...
One of the first major bebop groups in South Africa in the 1950s was the Jazz Epistles. [2] This group consisted of trombonist Jonas Gwangwa, trumpeter Hugh Masekela, saxophonist Kippie Moeketsi, and pianist Abdullah Ibrahim (then known as Dollar Brand). This group brought the sounds of United States bebop, created by artists such as Dizzy ...
Winston Mankunku Ngozi. Harry Miller (jazz bassist) Afrika Mkhize. Themba Mkhize. Pops Mohamed. Ernest Mothle. Nikele Moyake.
The Blue Notes were a South African jazz sextet, whose definitive line-up featured Chris McGregor on piano, Mongezi Feza on trumpet, Dudu Pukwana on alto saxophone, Nikele Moyake on tenor saxophone, Johnny Dyani on bass, and Louis Moholo-Moholo on drums. After moving away from their home country in 1964, they established themselves on the ...
singer. songwriter. Known for. Sakhile. kwaai-jazz. Donald Mahwetša Laka (born 15 December 1958 in Mamelodi, Pretoria), professionally known as Don Laka, is a South African jazz musician, songwriter and music producer, as well as the founder of "kwaai-jazz". [1][2] Laka finished studying at the Royal Academy of Music with Grade 8 in classical ...
King Kong (1959) was a landmark [1] South African jazz-influenced musical, billed at the time as an "all-African jazz opera".. It has been called "an extraordinary musical collaboration that took place in apartheid-torn South Africa.... a model of fruitful co-operation between black and white South Africans in the international entertainment field, and a direct challenge to apartheid."