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Take note: Photographer Vuyo Giba specialises in capturing jazz musicians in black and white. Photo: Supplied

Through the jazz lens: Vuyo Giba captures the spirit of South African sound

With her lens tuned to the heartbeat of South African jazz, Vuyo Giba transforms music into memory and sound into story

Trumpeter Robin Fassie (centre) is also a hands-on producer and tends towards sparse use of his instrument on the album. (Photo: Earl Abrahams)

NLite bring supple musicality for their self-titled debut

Cascading between moods and styles, the nine tracks on NLite’s album offer a lightness of spirit

Toward new orbits
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Toward new orbits

While The Orbit will be missed and its end is undoubtedly a frustrating and disappointing blow to the jazz scene

Capturing the soul of a musician: Tseliso Monaheng’s photograph of Malcolm Jiyane

Radiant child: Jiyane captured in the dead of night

A portrait of the enigmatic but gifted jazz cat and artist is conjured through the eyes of photographer (and admirer) Tseliso Monaheng

Jazz club culture: Orbit’s vinyl sessions challenge the purist nature of most jazz institutions.

Vinyl gives jazz nights a spin

Smoky bars, blue notes and swaying moves are not the stuff of the new attitude to jazz sounds

​Strong musical chemistry unites Skyjack’s kindred spirits from different backgrounds

​Strong musical chemistry unites Skyjack’s kindred spirits from different backgrounds

The new musical offering from Skyjack seamlessly weaves individual talents together.

Nakahne Toure launches his new EP The Laughing Son at the Bassline on November 27.

What’s On: November 27 to December 3

A round up of this week’s can’t-miss events.

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Musician Benjamin Jephta is high on the low notes

At just 22, Benjamin Jephta’s meteoric rise to critical prominence has taken not only talent but also balls and being unafraid to burn bridges.

The Chagossian people remain forcibly and criminally displaced from their homeland. Photo: Andrew Winning/Reuters

Jazz spun into an ideal orbit

Spacious Braamfontein jazz club The Orbit gets the mix just right in a number of crucial areas.

The Orbit makes space for jazz in Jo’burg

New live jazz club and bistro The Orbit hopes to position Johannesburg as the jazz capital of Africa.