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PF Music unites African talents at jazz concert

An African jazz advocacy initiative, PF Music, recently hosted the African Jazz Series Concert 2025, an event dedicated to showcasing the continent’s rich jazz heritage. The concert, held at Terra ...
The New York Times

5 Minutes That Will Make You Love South African Jazz

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 ...
NPR

The Grammy's newest categories acknowledge a boom for African music and modern jazz

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 ...
New York Sun

Jazz at Lincoln Center’s ‘Mother Africa’ Season Turns Focus to the Music of the Late Bheki Mseleku

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 ...
The Africa Report

South Africa: How independent music label Matsuli has kept local jazz alive

While there are those who place flowers upon graves to honour the dead, others dust off the archives to reissue the music of an artist lost to time. Pianist Gideon Nxumalo, who died in 1970, was ...
The Conversation

Sylvia Mdunyelwa, one of South Africa’s great jazz vocalists, kept music traditions alive

Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria As a researcher who documents historical and current South African jazz and popular music, I believe Mdunyelwa merits ...
NPR

New Grammy category for African music ignores almost all of Africa

The 2024 Grammy awards will see the introduction of a new category: "best African music performance." When the category was announced last year, Grammys CEO Harvey Mason Jr. stated that it would be ...