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On the count of three: The Kyle Shepherd Trio on stage (left to right), Shepherd, Shane Cooper and Jonno Sweetman. (Supplied)
BRAD MEHLDAU

The Kyle Shepherd Trio: A jazz dance sweetly played

Kyle Shepherd Trio’s new album is packed with originals, covers, homages – and a guilty pleasure

  • Charles Leonard
8 min read
Elusive: The documentary Chasing Trane fails to catch the full John Coltrane.
ARCHIE SHEPP

Hearing Coltrane: Like watching a grown man learn how to speak

Watching several of Coltrane’s harmonic and melodic experiments at the cusp of the 1960s, Amiri Baraka emerges frightened, yet energised

  • Amiri Baraka
4 min read
Herbie Hancock, a Buddhist for over 40 years, says it has a profound impact on not only his music but his life. (Douglas Kirkland)
70S

Herbie Hancock and the recurring bridging of time

Herbie Hancock speaks about how his spirituality influences his approach to life and music and about jazz’s role in striving for a better planet

  • Kwanele Sosibo
  • Nduduzo Makhathini
  • Brenda Sisane
12 min read
Wayne Shorter had an emotionally taxing life, which inevitably coloured his tone on the saxophone
ABDULLAH IBRAHIM

Spirituality at the core of sax great’s sound

Oyama Mabandla explores the idea that artistic success has spiritual bliss at its centre.

  • Oyama Mabandla
6 min read