There was growing interest in South African music during the 1980s. The initial impetus came from the Soweto uprising of 1976 and the s...

Kudos to Siemon Allen at the always-worthwhile Electric Jive blog for Miriam Makeba - Tracks Less Travelled (1958-98), a fascinating overv...

What a shame that South African saxophonist Dudu Pukwana died in exile on June 30, 1990, four years before the coming of democracy to his ho...

We were all saddened to hear of the death yesterday, November 10 of the esteemed South African singer Miriam Makeba . She was 76 and suffere...

I've got a couple of posts in the hopper that will be ready to go in a day or two, but I wanted to bring to your attention a couple of ...

I rescued this recording from the "bulk" pile at WYMS-FM many, many years ago. It was made as part of the "American Jazz Radi...