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The Texture of Silence, featuring Cara Stacey, Keenan Ahrends and Mzwandile Buthelezi, explores composition, improvisation and the grey area in between. (Supplied)
AS SHAMS

A place called home: Jazz and the new normal at the National Arts Festival

Several jazz offerings at the virtual festival focus on journeys and identity

  • Gwen Ansell
5 min read
Mongezi Feza on trumpet at the concert in 1964 that is the source of the rare new photos of The Blue Notes. (Norman Owen-Smith)
CHRIS MCGREGOR

Missing gold treasure: The void that is the South African jazz archive

Despite laudable efforts of some, there is a lot of history that has been lost and building a repository is now paramount

  • Boitumelo Tlhoaele
5 min read
CECIL TAYLOR

Take a deep breath

Strings may be an unexpected addition to Chris McGregor’s jazz, but his music was always about expansion, writes Shaun de Waal.

  • Shaun De Waal
4 min read