Jazz singer and writer, Gloria Bosman performs at the 22nd Joy of Jazz Festival in Johannesburg on Sept. 26, 2019. Smooth-voiced South African jazz musician Gloria Bosman has been lauded for her ...
University of Pretoria provides funding as a partner of The Conversation AFRICA. The immediate public reaction to the death of Gloria Bosman from a short respiratory illness on 14 March 2023 was ...
The country has a rich, original relationship to jazz, with American techniques layered into regional traditions and rhythms. Explore 50 years of recordings picked by musicians, poets and writers. By ...
Women have always had a lot of the big names in jazz: Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald. These artists broke barriers in the male-dominated genre; the trails they blazed are carried forth ...
Vocal legends like Lena Horne, Billy Holiday and Dorothy Dandridge come to life in a musical theatrical experience opening Saturday at Ashé Powerhouse Theater. "Belle Noire: An Ode To Black ...
Thinking back on the biggest cultural moments of 2024, it’s hard to ignore the many African women who were at the center of it all. Over the past decade, global African music has been dominated by ...
Jazz at Lincoln Center will launch its “Mother Africa” season with the world premiere of “Afro!,” a new commission by managing and artistic director — and jazz legend — Wynton Marsalis, on Sept. 18–20 ...
The Center for Advanced Study and the University of Illinois Press hosted panelists Darius and Catherine Brubeck, who pioneered the first jazz education program in apartheid South Africa. The Brubecks ...
With her lens tuned to the heartbeat of South African jazz, Vuyo Giba transforms music into memory and sound into story ...
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