Jazz at Lincoln Center will launch its “Mother Africa” season with the world premiere of “Afro!,” a new commission by managing and artistic director — and jazz legend — Wynton Marsalis, on Sept. 18–20 ...

At 64, McCoy Mrubata is a commanding presence on the South African jazz scene. A Cape Town native who now resides in Johannesburg along with his wife and four children, Mrubata has won many awards and ...

Roughly a month ago, Jazz at Lincoln Center launched its 2025-26 season with a new work by a major American composer and musician conceived in the agreed-upon general style of African music. This past ...

After years of backing South African music legends like Simphiwe Dana and Mafikizolo, Soweto-raised singer BusiGold is ...

Louis Tebugo Moholo-Moholo was born in St Monica’s Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa on 10 March 1940. He’d not have appreciated that introduction, once chastising an interviewer: Ah, no! My name is ...

Turiya Mareya was 5 when she began learning to play the piano and she figures her family of musicians probably expected her to play in church. She had other plans. “I studied a little bit of classical ...

An award-winning African jazz ensemble is set to bring Creative Arts East’s autumn Afternoon Events concert series to a close with ...

Afro Nation took over Memorial Day weekend in Miami with an explosive lineup of the top Afrobeats and amapiano acts. Dubbed the “world’s biggest Afrobeats festival,” fans from all over the world ...

Some record labels create huge market and financial clout. Some stay much smaller, but punch way above their weight in terms of their impact on the spirit of a country’s music. For South Africa, one ...

“The Dirty South Afro-Beat Arkestra,” is a fitting name for Gov’t Majik’s debut album. Gov’t Majik dedicates the album to the city of New Orleans and to all those who are rebuilding their lives. Majik ...

Mozambique-born bassist Gito Baloi was killed yesterday morning (April 4) in downtown Johannesburg, South Africa. Police say Baloi, 39, was shot in the neck as he made his way home from performing at ...