Bringing back the ‘Little Jazz City’ legacy

MORE than 60 years ago, Queenstown, in the Eastern Cape, was South Africa’s "Little Jazz City". Almost every black home hosted an instrument, or a player or singer of note, and musical dynasties such as the Matshikiza family were being established. ...read more

Music crosses borders in grand concert plan

FROM classical music to proudly South African offerings and jazz, an innovative alliance will showcase an exciting blend of local talent and visiting performers on stages in Nelson Mandela Bay. ...read more

Jazz duo impressive performance

“Sublime” was how one audience member described the music of renowned South African jazz musicians and composers, Andre Petersen and Feya Faku. ...read more

Blowing the blues down Hill Street

Jazz and blues lovers no longer have to wait until the Arts Festival to get their fix of swinging music in Grahamstown. ...read more

Progress and neglect

The invitation extended this year to SA born composer Bongani Ndodana-Breen by the Johannesburg International Mozart Festival (JIMF) is of significance, especially in the context of SA classical music. ...read more

Congratulations: Christo Greyling

Christo Greyling, a second year student studying piano with Catherine Foxcroft at Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology, won second place (R 11,300.00) in the prestigious 2012 UNISA South African Music Scholarship competition on 19 October 2012. ...read more

Choral treat in George on 8 September

The George Male Voice Choir, conducted by Jan-Erik Swart, will be hosting a unique choral concert on Saturday 8 September. ...read more

Music student awarded Commonwealth Scholarship

Mia Pistorius has been offered a Commonwealth Scholarship to study towards an MPhil in Music Performance at the University of Oxford. ...read more

Historical music exhibit brings its sounds to EL

Historical music exhibit brings its sounds to EL AN ACCLAIMED travelling exhibition, For Future Generations by the late Hugh Tracey, opened at the East London Museum on Thursday night. ...read more

One-man history with some high notes

Rhodes student Brett de Groot, a Rhodes University student is debuting a musical tribute at this year’s Festival, and it promises to be anything but ordinary. ...read more

Here's to homegrown talent

“Ways to keep warm” could have been the subtitle of the Grahamstown Sextet’s concert on a cold, wet night this week.v ...read more

Festival classical clash, a crescendo of note

BOXERS use gloves, while classical musicians use pianos and brass and string instruments to blow your mind. Some go as far as to say boxing is less painful than a classical maestro match-up. ...read more

Grahamstown talent comes together for final concert

PRISCILLA HALL The final concert of the Grahamstown Music Society's 2011 series, on Tuesday 18 October, is an entirely French programme of chamber music from Paris, played by Grahamstown's own musical heroes. ...read more

“Symbolic mobility of what we call jazz”

Since South Africa emerged from cultural isolation, the challenges of a globalised jazz industry has led to live performance becoming the dominant means of expression.

Black jazz artists express performance confidence in ways very different to their fellows who were performing under the harsh apartheid laws, says Professor David Coplan of Wits University.

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"The time in SA when the ideas underlying music get their most vigorous airing"

Today (January 18) is the second and final day of the Rhodes University History, Politics and Aesthetics of Jazz Conference: an opportunity for scholars to draw together the various threads of inquiry that currently characterise the study of South African jazz culture.

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“Segregation functioned as a structural condition for the emergence of jazz”

The emergence of jazz as a genre at the same time as the “Jim Crow” segregation laws were enacted in America, came under the spotlight during the keynote address delivered by Ingrid Monson, Quincy Jones Professor of African-American music at Harvard University, at the “Histories, Aesthetics and Politics of South African Jazz” Symposium held at Rhodes.

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A symposium to preserve a rich Eastern Cape jazz heritage

Rhodes University will be hosting a Histories, Aesthetics and Politics of South African Jazz Symposium from 17 – 18 January 2012. The conference will take place in the Beethoven Room and will be officially opened by the Vice-Chancellor, Dr Saleem Badat.

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