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International Jazz Day
30 April 2020
Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa has been designated the Global Host City for International Jazz Day 2020, with an extensive program of education and community outreach activities planned.
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​For more information please visit:
​International Jazz Day website: https://jazzday.com/about/
International Jazz Day South Africa website: https://jazzday.co.za/
Some RESOURCES on South African Jazz

  • How did Jazz develop in South Africa? by Hotep Galeta
https://www.openskyjazz.com/2012/03/how-did-jazz-develop-in-south-africa/

  • Information on the South African Association for Jazz Education (SAJE)
http://www.saje.org.za/

  • SAJE - Resources page
http://www.saje.org.za/south-african-jazz---resources.html

  • Information on CAPE JAZZ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_jazz

  • Information about JISA - Jazz in South Africa
http://ev2.co.uk/jisa/core/about.html

  • Information on Electric Jive Blogspot
http://electricjive.blogspot.com/
We focus on out of print South African, and other African music that is very difficult to find.

  • Information on Keeping Time: Photographs and Cape Town Jazz Recordings 1964-1974
http://electricjive.blogspot.com/p/ibh-audio-archive-posts.html
Ian Bruce Huntley captured more than 1500 South African jazz-related images and recorded and preserved in excess of 56 hours of reel-to-reel audio of jazz performed in Cape Town over the period 1964-1974. This site aims to make Ian’s jazz archive accessible, opening a window on a little-known era,  an ‘underground’ scene that persisted in creative defiance of all that grand apartheid threw at it.

  • Information on sisgwenjazz - blogspot by Gwen Ansell
https://sisgwenjazz.wordpress.com/

  • South African Music
http://www.music.org.za/

  • Information on Mountain Records started by Paddy Lee Thorpe in 1980
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Records
  • Information on the Cape Jazz Collection
http://www.sheetmusic.co.za/p_capejazz
In 2008 music researcher Colin Miller together with publisher Nick Green of jazz.co.za, released the first ever sheet music collection of Cape Jazz compositions arranged by Jannie van Tonder, entitled the Cape Jazz Collection. The tunes included in this anthology are a modest part of the large body of music composed by some of Cape Town's premier jazz musicians. These include Winston Mankunku Ngozi, Merton Barrow, Basil Coetzee and Robbie Jansen who, among others, are household names in South African jazz. Though the genre existed long before official Apartheid, it has become a popular belief that these musicians provided anthems of resistance, challenged the Apartheid State through cultural activism and kept their fans dancing through the 1980s towards electoral freedom in the early 1990s.
Post-1994 saw the emergence of younger musicians, equally dedicated to the promotion of local music. Due to a new political dispensation, they had increased opportunities for professionalism in music. Among these are Paul Hanmer, Mark Fransman and Buddy Wells, whose compositions are also included in the Cape Jazz Collection.

Some important South African Jazz Musicians:
  • Bheki Mseleku
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bheki_Mseleku
  • Moses Molelekwa
https://city-press.news24.com/News/the-tragedy-of-genius-remembering-moses-molelekwa-20160220
  • Zim Ngqawana
https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/zimasile-ngqawana
  • Hugh Masekela
http://hughmasekela.co.za/
  • Abdullah Ibrahim
https://abdullahibrahim.co.za/

Jazz Photographs:
https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/rashid-lombard
https://africasacountry.com/2014/04/an-important-recording-of-jazz

Top 10 SA jazz albums - Tony McGregor
https://spinditty.com/genres/Top-10-albums-of-the-South-African-jazz-diaspora-Tonys-picks


"This is South African Jazz" presented by Seton Hawkins 
an eight-part series exploring the past and present of South Africa's Jazz scene
Episode 1: Marabi to Miriam Makeba
https://www.mixcloud.com/smh2002/this-is-south-african-jazz-show-1/?fbclid=IwAR2oyda6WVb_zhTP0Q-aWC9Rem5XenLN7bSEQkCd0AX2_uKCIqgOvnAZOu0
Episode 2: King Kong to Sharpeville
https://www.mixcloud.com/smh2002/episode-2-king-kong-to-sharpeville/?fbclid=IwAR1bS-lSvP9lcmuQ7dGbpL4zlcaLuVLHcT2aZ9IHxPRC6z3t0_Xv5IWfDE4
Episode 3: Jazz in exile - part one
https://www.mixcloud.com/smh2002/episode-3-jazz-in-exile-part-one/?fbclid=IwAR0rc9-Ey0C1PqoGxjMVWyeIC0c54jxWd5VZrDp7ADP8xsX5bVm9Ok5Iwek
Episode 4: Jazz in exile - part two
https://www.mixcloud.com/smh2002/episode-4-jazz-in-exile-part-two/?fbclid=IwAR2aVLNz0KY0Kb8e0o3VdczqAAOpK_FxtchUjLnPB3qblqLtyRQMO9uNbsU
Episode 5: Those who remained behind - part one
https://www.mixcloud.com/smh2002/episode-5-those-who-remained-behind-part-one/listeners/?fbclid=IwAR1PpR0KtW5QKUHVAQDYCC1BeBexeH_2B-Feqlr094rFQ-SqovdC2NKsGaY
Episode 6: Those who remained behind - part two
https://www.mixcloud.com/smh2002/episode-6-those-who-remained-behind-part-two/?fbclid=IwAR0X1DgwexafJJTsNeID5J7c8gZr1Pqv7w8KW-U2LApiYipJKdGuOyZzINA
Episode 7: Jazz of the new South Africa - part one
https://www.mixcloud.com/smh2002/episode-7-jazz-of-the-new-south-africa-part-one/?fbclid=IwAR0f2NxxhsH8ITtSqv_trw3AcE6E-peQ9xXRxAz1BzAf1z-_uo6fU4ChpQQ
Episode 8: Jazz of the new South Africa - part two
https://www.mixcloud.com/smh2002/episode-8-jazz-of-the-new-south-africa-part-two/?fbclid=IwAR00ar9PnGJY50zGCn4H_VLxY7o34lXUStSWPchmPZ0KcdvGWtHuWfXEHTA
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​Seton Hawkins serves as Director of Public Programs and Education Resources at Jazz at Lincoln Center. At JALC, Seton oversaw the creation and expansion of the Jazz Academy media library, creating the largest free video library in the world dedicated to jazz pedagogy. He leads the organization’s Swing University teaching initiative, while also hosting all Listening Parties and public programs at Jazz at Lincoln Center and giving free pre-concert lectures before major shows in Rose Theater and in the Appel Room. In addition, Seton has worked as a producer, manager, publicist, radio DJ, and advocate in Jazz for more than a decade. As a freelance agent, he served legendary artists including Buster Williams, Onaje Allan Gumbs, Sathima Bea Benjamin, and Michele Rosewoman, and produced a wide range of concerts and recordings. He has written extensively for Hot House Jazz and for AllAboutJazz.com, with a particular emphasis on the Jazz scene of South Africa. Seton received his MBA from Babson College and his BA in Music from Columbia University.

South African Jazz in 60 seconds by Seton Hawkins (JALC)
https://www.facebook.com/jazzatlincolncenter/videos/2616196965078456/
Jazz at Lincoln Center Jazz Academy presents: An interview with Sibongile Khumalo
July 2018 marked the centennial of Nelson Mandela's birth! In recognition of that, learn more about South African music through this four-part oral history with vocalist Sibongile Khumalo, South Africa's "first lady of song"
Sibongile Khumalo - Speaker
Carol Muller - Host
Eric Suquet - Director
Bill Thomas - Director of Photography
Aaron Chandler - Sound Engineer
Seton Hawkins - Producer
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South Africa's "First Lady of Song" Sibongile Khumalo, Part One
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynLrbN2pg2o&list=PLReW5Mv77OKBfQwA-daTcugcvzxJC4gJs
​South Africa's "First Lady of Song" Sibongile Khumalo, Part Two
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KE4uzokXZw&list=PLReW5Mv77OKBfQwA-daTcugcvzxJC4gJs&index=2
​South Africa's "First Lady of Song" Sibongile Khumalo, Part Three
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-aCgNJRH_0&list=PLReW5Mv77OKBfQwA-daTcugcvzxJC4gJs&index=3
​South Africa's "First Lady of Song" Sibongile Khumalo, Part Four
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZcgrqC1MPg&list=PLReW5Mv77OKBfQwA-daTcugcvzxJC4gJs&index=4

Information on Carol Muller
https://www.sas.upenn.edu/music/people/standing-faculty/carol-muller
Carol Muller is a Professor of Music (ethnomusicology) at the University of Pennsylvania, who has published widely on South African music, both at home and in exile. Her intellectual interests include the relationship between music, gender and religious studies, migration and diaspora studies, and critical ethnography. Musical Echoes: South African Women Thinking in Jazz (Duke Fall 2011) with Sathima Bea Benjamin
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​Western Cape Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport:

Western Cape Jazz Legends booklet
​https://www.westerncape.gov.za/assets/departments/cultural-affairs-sport/wc_jazz_legends_book_web_18_june.pdf
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​Jazz artists featured on the mural and in the booklet:
Robert Sithole, Ezra Ngcukana, Dougie Schrikker, Monty Webber, Tony Cedras, Jimmy Adams, 'Cups and Saucer' Nkanuka, Vincent Kolbe, Winston Mankunku Ngozi, Russell Herman, Christopher Columbus Ngcukana, Colin Campbell, Tony Schilder, Alvin Dyers, Abdullah Ibrahim, Cliffy Moses, Donald Tshomela, Louis Moholo, Ian Smith, Merton Barrow, Mike Campbell, Spencer Mbadu, Phyllis Madikwa, Victor Ntoni, Sathima Benjamin, Basil 'Mannenberg' Coetzee, Zelda Benjamin, Tete Mbambisa, Sylvia Mdunyelwa, Paul Abrahams, Hotep Idris Galeta, Robbie Jansen.