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The Brazilian composer, bandleader, and bassist offers his views of improvisation and talks about his experiences with the legendary Hermeto Pascoal.
Randy Weston and Robin Kelley discuss the life and music of Thelonious Monk at the Dwyer Cultural Center, October 13, 2009.
Randy Weston and Robin Kelley discuss the life and music of Thelonious Monk at the Dwyer Cultural Center, October 13, 2009.
Singer/composer Sathima Bea Benjamin grew up in Cape Town watching movies and listening to jazz records from America. Rejecting a life under apartheid, her career took her to New York, where she now lives. In conversation with Gwen Ansell, Ms. Benjamin discusses, with sung and recorded illustrations, the emotions and debates American music stirred among Cape Town's jazz players and singers, and how America responded to the African contribution to jazz and world culture. Ms. Benjamin is accompanied by Onaje Allan Gumbs, piano.
The continuation of Gwen Ansell's discussion of black radio stations and their struggle with the apartheid regime in South Africa. Click here for Part I.
Gwen Ansell discusses the strategies that South African musicians and radio stations used to overcome the apartheid regime's efforts at cultural cleansing by introducing black audiences to jazz, and thus making jazz "the quintessential music of struggle" in that country. Click here for Part II.
