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A Deft Depth Connection

Xolani Mthombeni — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 08:50:57 +0000

The trumpet is brass wind instrument as old as time, dating back Before Christ, the (B.C) eon. It is an instrument that connotes depth, attention and eminent calls, be it ethereal spaces, upheavals or revolts. Even in social calls the trumpet is a clarion voice of change. This thread sounded at the twenty fifth Standard [...]

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A relevant jazz anvil

Xolani Mthombeni — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 17:55:44 +0000

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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We owe it to jazz

Thato Mahlangu — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 13:07:30 +0000

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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