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CLIMATE ACTIVISM

Encounters with Palestine and the environment

These subjects take centre stage at a festival showcasing nearly 50 documentaries

  • Charles Leonard
9 min read
Musical progeny: Jazz legend Dave Brubeck as a young man in the 1950s. (Getty Images)
CATHERINE BRUBECK

Chip off the old rock … it seems that musical gene-ius can be passed on

The expression “As the tree, so the fruit” certainly applies to musicians and their children.

  • Charles Leonard
5 min read
Sea change: We Have Waited Too Long by the Jazzanians, a multiracial band of talented students from the University of Natal, formed in the deep, dark apartheid days of the late 1980s, has just been reissued.
CATHERINE BRUBECK

Shared goals, trust and friendship … this is where the jol is

A jazz couple talk about their time in SA and their new book, record and documentary

  • Charles Leonard
10 min read