Artists could get passports and they travelled overseas and discovered it wasn’t worthwhile cloning what was already there, so they decided to use African rhythms and tunes and mixed it with a back-beat and contemporary jazz rhythms. It was fresh and inventive and record companies started recording African jazz artists. (...)
Sunday, August 18, 2013
South African jazz has never been better!
Jazzaholic by Don Albert: Just after our first democratic elections there was a giant step forward in SA jazz which went through a dynamic change.
Artists could get passports and they travelled overseas and discovered it wasn’t worthwhile cloning what was already there, so they decided to use African rhythms and tunes and mixed it with a back-beat and contemporary jazz rhythms. It was fresh and inventive and record companies started recording African jazz artists. (...)
Artists could get passports and they travelled overseas and discovered it wasn’t worthwhile cloning what was already there, so they decided to use African rhythms and tunes and mixed it with a back-beat and contemporary jazz rhythms. It was fresh and inventive and record companies started recording African jazz artists. (...)
