The country has a rich, original relationship to jazz, with American techniques layered into regional traditions and rhythms. Explore 50 years of recordings picked by musicians, poets and writers. By ...

The Center for Advanced Study and the University of Illinois Press hosted panelists Darius and Catherine Brubeck, who pioneered the first jazz education program in apartheid South Africa. The Brubecks ...

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 ...

The Grammy Awards recognize all sorts of rising artists, but the Grammys also spotlight styles or subgenres or entire fields of music that are breaking through by forming new award categories. This ...

From July through June 2026, the new season will showcase works by John Coltrane, the South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim and more. By Derrick Bryson Taylor Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 38th season ...

The jazz pianist has built a career challenging the perception of blindness through music South African jazz pianist and composer Yonela Mnana is using music and performance to challenge perceptions ...

Dancing Clouds; Suite for Africa Part 1: Spirit Africa, Spirit Liberia; Suite for Africa Part 2: Fifteen as One; Suite for Africa Part 3: Forgotten Children; Faith, Is Her Name; Worldwide; Rain River; ...

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 ...

This January, Jazz at Lincoln Center will present two major concerts that offer fresh, timely entry points into the legacy of Duke Ellington, exploring both his profound connection to Africa and his ...

NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 18: (L-R) Marion Felder, Jon Batiste, Vincent Gardner, and Chris Crenshaw perform in a second line during Jazz At Lincoln Center's 30th Anniversary Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center ...