Disclaimer This timeline covers a sampling of major political, social, and cultural events in South Africa, with special emphasis on apartheid and South African jazz. It does not purport to provide a ...

This special section is devoted to South African jazz, which has prospered for several decades and developed a distinctive character all its own. AAJ: SA was created in 2002 and has since been updated ...

Every artist on the line-up has been chosen for their ability to move audiences — emotionally, spiritually and musically, say organisers ...

Discover the exciting artist line-up for the Cape Town International Jazz Festival 2026, featuring global icons and South ...

March is Women’s History Month by presidential proclamation. The month is set aside to honor women’s contributions in American history.

Roughly a month ago, Jazz at Lincoln Center launched its 2025-26 season with a new work by a major American composer and musician conceived in the agreed-upon general style of African music. This past ...

Bokani Dyer is not just a leading figure in contemporary South African jazz, he’s also a living link to its history. His father, saxophonist Steve Dyer, was part of Medu, a radical multi-disciplinary ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Decolonization gets the ultimate needle-drop treatment in the documentary “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” from Belgian filmmaker ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sacré-Cœur Basilica, Paris, France In the roaring twenties, the world buzzed with jazz rhythms and a spirit of liberation. It was ...

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 ...