As anticipation mounts for the first-ever Jazzin’ Africa Festival, all eyes turn to the Mövenpick Ambassador Hotel in Accra, ...

Scheduled to coincide with the historic ten year anniversary of the end of apartheid, AFRICA STRAIGHT AHEAD spotlights some of South Africa's leading jazz musicians playing their own compositions. Set ...

A ward-winning South African jazz artist Ernie Smith opens up about his creative journey and his latest offering, Heya, an introspective song that explores complexities of love.

organised by the City of Windhoek promises to be more than just a concert – it’s a celebration of African identity expressed through the universal language of jazz. From the timeless groove of Sipho ...

Twenty-five years have passed since South Africa ended the cruel social experiment of apartheid, which divided its citizens, locked up its people of color and brought decades of havoc and pain. This ...

Reporting from Johannesburg — Legendary South African jazz musician and anti-apartheid activist Hugh Masekela has died at 78 after a decade-long fight with cancer, according to a statement from his ...

In the roaring twenties, the world buzzed with jazz rhythms and a spirit of liberation. It was an era when African American artists found their creative voices and sought new horizons beyond the ...

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 ...

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