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Sweet fruits of a Swiss-SA jazz romance

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Sweet fruits of a Swiss-SA jazz romance: For Bheki Mseleku, Lulu Gontsana, Alex van Heerden and Zim Ngqawana, the visit to Switzerland was the swan song to their remarkable careers, as they all died shortly after their respective trips. For Ngqawana, his dream came true with a performance at …
Zim Ngqawana – Read more on Mail & Guardian Online

William Parker: Back to bass licks: It was that expansive range of inspirations, no doubt, that provided some of the common ground for Parker’s collaborations with the late South African saxophonist Zim Ngqawana in the Collective Quartet. Melody is never absent from Parker’s inspiration …
Zim Ngqawana – Read more on Mail & Guardian Online

All that jazz: Deep in the darkness: The album includes several nods to the departed: there is Dirge (for Zim Ngqawana), his former University of Natal Jazz Centre classmate from the 1980s and Miss Benjamin (for Sathima Benjamin) the singer and late former wife of pianist Abdullah Ibrahim.
Zim Ngqawana – Read more on Times LIVE

Three Jazz Pianists, A Generation After Apartheid: Over the last decade he’s gotten calls to work with most of the major jazz elders in South Africa: the late Zim Ngqawana, Herbie Tsoaeli, Feya Faku, Carlo Mombelli. Lessons have come from all angles. Saxophonist Ngqawana taught him to play music that …
Zim Ngqawana – Read more on NPR (blog)

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