Best South African Jazz Artists - April 2024

Next Stop Soweto Vol 3: Jazz In South Africa 1963

Strut conclude their essential three part excursion into the archives of South African music with their third and final volume of the Next Stop...Soweto series.Volume is a long overdue retrospective of the rich jazz scene happening in South Africa from the early 60 s to mid-80 s. While many major artists lived in exile abroad and furthered their careers globally, many of South Africa s finest jazz players remained, performing under the strict auspices of the Separate Amenities Act.Next Stop Soweto Vol 3 is the story of the music that survived in South Africa during the mid 60 s to mid 80 s era... [Read More]

• ASIN: B003ELZKWA
• UPC: 730003306327
• ASIN: B003ELZKWA
• Brand: STRUT RECORDS
• Manufacturer: Strut Records

Shadow Man

The second post-Juluka album from founder Johnny Clegg, whose entire musical being is about fusing together elements of both Black and White music. Here, traditional African Zulu chants meet modern instruments for a most invigorating fusion. Clegg's stage show is just as exciting as his recordings.

• ASIN: B000006XNL
• UPC: 077779041121
• ASIN: B000006XNL
• Brand: EMI
• Manufacturer: EMI France

Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta

Blues is the cornerstone of American popular music, the bedrock of rock and roll. In this extraordinary musical and social history, Robert Palmer traces the odyssey of the blues from its rural beginnings, to the steamy bars of Chicago’s South Side, to international popularity, recognition, and imitation. Palmer tells the story of the blues through the lives of its greatest practitioners: Robert Johnson, who sang of being pursued by the hounds of hell; Muddy Waters, who electrified Delta blues and gave the music its rock beat; Robert Lockwood and Sonny Boy Williamson, who launched the King Bi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0140062238
• ASIN: 0140062238
• ISBN: 9780140062236
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

Live at the Market Theatre (2CD SET)

Born in South Africa in 1939, flugelhorn, trumpet, and cornet virtuoso Hugh Masekela was inspired by American jazz as a young boy and served an extensive apprenticeship with some of his homeland's musical giants. In 1959, he and pianist Dollar Brand (aka Abdullah Ibrahim) formed the legendary Jazz Epistles, but after a brutal government crackdown on political opposition, Masekela and a host of other artists and intellectuals fled the country. A long but fruitful period followed, during which he worked with Yehudi Menuhin, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Harry Belefonte, Miriam Makeba (his ex-wif... [Read More]

• ASIN: B000R9YE56
• UPC: 822545180524
• ASIN: B000R9YE56
• Manufacturer: Four Quarters Ent

Jazz Anecdotes: Second Time Around

When jazz musicians get together, they often delight one another with stories about the great, or merely remarkable, players and singers they've worked with. One good story leads to another until someone says, "Somebody ought to wrie these down!" With Jazz Anecdotes, somebody finally has. Drawing on a rich verbal tradition, bassist and jazz writer Bill Crow has culled stories from a wide variety of sources, including interviews, biographies and a remarkable oral history collection, which resides at the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University, to paint fascinating and very human portrai... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0195187954
• ASIN: 0195187954
• ISBN: 0195187954
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

VOCAbuLarieS

2010 release from the 10-time Grammy Award winner/vocal innovator, his first new release in eight years. Like his #1 worldwide hit song 'Don't Worry Be Happy' and his multi-platinum duo album, Hush, with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, VOCAbuLarieS is based on Bobby's experiments with multi-track recording and his ceaseless exploration of the potential of the human voice. VOCAbuLarieS is Bobby McFerrin music for the 21st century. A collaboration with the composer/arranger/producer Roger Treece, VOCAbuLarieS features over fifty of the world's finest singers, recorded one at a time and in small groups to crea... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00303WR3M
• UPC: 602527255569
• ASIN: B00303WR3M
• Brand: McFerrin, Bobby
• Manufacturer: EmArcy

Jazz ABZ: An A to Z Collection of Jazz Portraits

In a swinging improvisation with poster artist Paul Rogers, Wynton Marsalis celebrates the spirit of twenty-six stellar jazz performers, from Armstrong to Dizzy — and showcases the same number of poetic forms.A is for "almighty" Louis Armstrong, whose amazing artistry unfolds in an accumulative poem shaped like the letter he stands for. As for sax master Sonny Rollins, whose "robust style radiates roundness," could there be a better tribute than a poetic rondeau? In an extraordinary feat, Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz composer Wynton Marsalis harmonizes his love and knowledge of jazz's most ce... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0763621358
• ASIN: 0763621358
• ISBN: 0763621358
• Brand: Brand: Candlewick
• Manufacturer: Candlewick

Collection

The 14 tracks on this collection all come from the 1970s when Masekela was at the height of his powers. Spectrum. 2003.

• ASIN: B0000AQVCH
• UPC: 602498102275
• ASIN: B0000AQVCH
• Brand: Masekela, Hugh
• Manufacturer: Spectrum Audio Uk

Jazz & Blues Musicians of South Carolina: Interviews With Jabbo, Dizzy, Drink, and Others (Non Series)

Through detailed interviews with 19 South Carolina musicians, jazz historian and radio host Benjamin Franklin presents an oral history of the tradition and influence of jazz and the blues in the Palmetto State.

• ASIN: 1570037434
• ASIN: 1570037434
• ISBN: 1570037434
• Brand: Brand: University of South Carolina Press
• Manufacturer: University of South Carolina Press

Blues All Around Me: The Autobiography of B.B. King

• ASIN: 0380973189
• ASIN: 0380973189
• ISBN: 0380973189
• Manufacturer: Avon Books

Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life

• ASIN: 1400060788
• ASIN: 1400060788
• ISBN: 1400060788
• Brand: Brand: Random House
• Manufacturer: Random House

Beyond Category: The Life And Genius Of Duke Ellington

• ASIN: 0306806142
• ASIN: 0306806142
• ISBN: 0306806142
• Manufacturer: Da Capo Press

CROSS DOG BLUES: Book One of A Great Long Story to Tell (Volume 1)

AMAZON #1 BESTSELLER in Blues BooksAMAZON BESTSELLER in Hist. Thrillers & Hist. FictionA fast and powerful historical thriller about the birth of the Delta blues.“...this is storytelling at its best...” -- Fortean Times Magazine“...poignant...heartening...insightful...” -- Kirkus ReviewsIn 1915, in a moonlit room in a boarding house in Texas, Charlie Patton -- the enigmatic inventor of blues music -- founds a shadowy alliance with Huddie ‘Lead Belly’ Ledbetter and Blind Lemon Jefferson. A pact is made, and the seeds of revolution are sown. Back at the Dockery Plantation in the Miss... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0991132025
• ASIN: 0991132025
• ISBN: 0991132025
• Manufacturer: Bogie Road Publishing

Jelly's Blues: The Life, Music, And Redemption Of Jelly Roll Morton

Jelly's Blues vividly recounts the tumultuous life of Jelly Roll Morton (1890-1941), born Ferdinand Joseph Lamonthe to a large, extended family in New Orleans. A virtuoso pianist with a larger-than-life personality, he composed such influential early jazz pieces as "Kansas City Stomp" and "New Orleans Blues." But by the late 1930s, Jelly Roll Morton was nearly forgotten as a visionary jazz composer. Instead, he was caricatured as a braggart, a hustler, and, worst of all, a has-been. He was ridiculed by the white popular press and robbed of due royalties by unscrupulous music publishers. His re... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0306812096
• ASIN: 0306812096
• ISBN: 0306812096
• Manufacturer: Da Capo Press

Friday Night at Honeybee's: A Novel

• ASIN: B001O1O7GC
• ASIN: B001O1O7GC
• Manufacturer: Delta

Rough Guide To South African Jazz / Various (Vinyl)

Vinyl LP pressing includes digital download. Download card gives you extra South African Jazz tracks. South African jazz is a pertinent reminder of the intrinsic link between music and the dismantling of oppression. This Rough

• UPC: 55906403

Various Artists : Best of South African Jazz CD (2004) FREE Shipping, Save £s

• UPC: 303438107503
• Category: CDs
• Price: 2 GBP