Joy of Jazz Archives - Consciousness.co.za Magazine https://consciousness.co.za/tag/joy-of-jazz/ Arts and African History Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:59:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 A relevant jazz anvil https://consciousness.co.za/a-relevant-jazz-anvil/ https://consciousness.co.za/a-relevant-jazz-anvil/#respond Thu, 19 Sep 2024 17:55:44 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=15040 We live in a rapid paced world where not so long ago waterless systems, heated towel rails and digitised homes with timed lighting seemed and sounded light years ahead. In tandem, this was also when the colours and flavours of jazz and music enriched our homes, hearts and spaces. In timeline intervals, it is an [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/a-relevant-jazz-anvil/feed/ 0 Seeing the Jazz Fruit https://consciousness.co.za/seeing-the-jazz-fruit/ https://consciousness.co.za/seeing-the-jazz-fruit/#respond Tue, 26 Sep 2023 08:00:20 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=14896 Living in a rapidly and constantly changing world of music, as practitioners, singers and instrumentalists, being well informed is a necessity. By fulfilling this, it creates fertile ground and a firm foundation for being successful in their artistry. It is indubitably sensible to applaud and acknowledge the dynasty of musicians that incessantly, in valour and [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/seeing-the-jazz-fruit/feed/ 0 The power of jazz music reinforced at jazz fest https://consciousness.co.za/the-power-of-jazz-music-reinforced-at-jazz-fest/ https://consciousness.co.za/the-power-of-jazz-music-reinforced-at-jazz-fest/#respond Wed, 02 Oct 2019 13:54:51 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=13695 22 years, ntate Peter Tladi started what would later be known as the Standard Bank Joy of Jazz, one of Africa’s biggest jazz festivals that is held annually, without fail, in September. I guess when Tladi and the T-Music man team conceptualised the idea, which was initially held at the SA State Theatre in Tshwane, [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/the-power-of-jazz-music-reinforced-at-jazz-fest/feed/ 0 We owe it to jazz https://consciousness.co.za/we-owe-it-to-jazz/ https://consciousness.co.za/we-owe-it-to-jazz/#respond Wed, 02 Oct 2019 13:07:30 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=13692 Who would have thought that something so good as South African jazz would be born from the darker days of apartheid? Well the likes of ntate Hugh Masekela, ntate Jonas Gwagwa, ntate Abdullah Abrahim, and mama Dolly Rathebe, mama Dorothy Masuka and mama Mirriam Makeba, didn’t let what the apartheid government and its oppressing laws [...]

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