Tshepo Mngoma & Jahari Stampley Family Trio on The Jazz Standard with Brenda Sisane

This November, Africa’s young people are being placed at the centre of the continent’s public imagination through Africa Youth Day on 1 November, the One Young World Summit in Cape Town from 3–6 November, and the Youth Olympic Games in Dakar from 31 October to 13 November. Alongside the language…

In this moving birthday tribute, bassist-composer-educator Nhlanhla Manana helps us muse on Raymond "Bra Ray" Nkwe''s contributions as a purveyor and promoter of South African Jazz in the early to mid-90s ahead of a memorial lecture hosted by Nhlanhla himself to honour Bra Ray at the Wits School of Arts…

Flying High Above, is her 20th album of all original compositions. With this project, she fulfills her lifelong dream of recording in Havana having felt the ties between the rhythms of her native Azerbaijan echoed in the music of Cuba since she was young. In 2024, she released "Suite for…

The adventure of rich storytelling about the world of Jazz continues with Brenda Sisane on Kaya 959's The Jazz Standard.

What if the most indulgent part of a holiday is not another drink, but the morning after it: waking rested, clear-headed and ready to experience the destination at full volume? For a growing number of travellers, that is becoming the new definition of escape. This is not necessarily a rejection…