Throughout this decade, pianist, composer, and bandleader Bokani Dyer has stood as one of the most formidable and creative keyboard talents in South Africa today. Raised in a musical family—his father ...

This is FRESH AIR. South African pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim was known early in his career as Dollar Brand. He left South Africa in 1962 for Europe, where Duke Ellington heard and recorded ...

Friends of Music at St. Philip's in the Hills Episcopal Church will present a concert featuring pianist William Chapman Nyaho at 7 p.m. Friday. His program, "Piano Music of Africa and the African ...

Chick Corea and Keith Jarrett are widely thought to have represented ECM Records' initial solo piano forays with Piano Improvisations, Vol. 1 & 2 (1971/1972) and Facing You (1972), respectively, but a ...

DISTRICT HEIGHTS, Md. — Warren Shadd adorned the walls of his one-story home with several framed artifacts. On one wall hangs photographs of his family – his grandmother, his father, and his mother – ...

Whether it’s house or techno, Black electronic music has been at the forefront of popular culture for decades, often with the Black musicians and communities behind it rarely afforded the credit for ...

University of Pretoria provides funding as a partner of The Conversation AFRICA. The philosophy of Ntu (stemming from the philosophy of ubuntu) speaks to the merging of the physical and spiritual and ...

South African jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim laughs when he remembers a gig he played shortly after he moved to America in 1965. “There was this club in New York and I suggested that I bring my trio,” ...

With African elephants endangered, a UCLA-led study says their decline could ripple from the rainforest to the concert stage—revealing a critical link between the threatened species and pianos and ...

Piano teacher Jenny Bowes felt compelled to play a piano found within the debris after days of violence as a prayer for the circumstances to improve. A pianist in South Africa played the country’s ...

From "A White Woman in Central Africa," Helen Caddick. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from ...

The reissued album features the sound of the South African musician once known as Dollar Brand. Critic Kevin Whitehead says: "When Abdullah got a-rumbling, his piano was like a force of nature." This ...