Of Jazz, Payments, Patriarchy and Fair Labour Practices
ou may not yet have read Miles Keylock’s musings on the issues of payments to musicians. If you haven’t, you should: it’s a fine piece of writing. But its content – Keylock’s assertion that young musicians are cash-obsessed and egotistical – as well as the way he frames the debate, have stirred up significant […]
Memorialising An Epic
It begins. And then you become aware of the silence that must precede everything. You learn to see the emptiness; a dark space in a photograph, a shadow on the march of time, the deaf break between notes, the lapses and gabs of collective public recollections. This is the absence of musicians now too far […]
I Fuck With Every Record
It used to be said in African-American folklore that if you want to get a head start on the blues, you must be born in Chicago, Illinois. Similarly, in South Africa, it used to be said that if you wanted to get a head start on Malombo jazz – that proud sound steeped in […]