Jazz Against Apartheid 2023 beyond exile : continues the homecoming of the legacy of musical prodigy Johnny Dyani to his roots in the Eastern Cape through a world class musical collaboration between international and Eastern Cape Jazz musicians.
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Johnny Mbizo Dyani is a frontline liberation music composer, a sentimental African Xhosa folk music performer and an avant-garde flag-bearer of the improvisational, free Jazz expression. Jazz Against Apartheid artistic director, saxophonist Daniel Guggenheim supported by Jazz Against Apartheid international luminaries and South African based collaborators has transcribed 20 compositions of Dyani into a Songbook. Copyright licences of the compositions from Steeplechase. 100% of proceeds to the Jazz Against Apartheid Concerts.R400.00
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JAA is a bridge between geography and history, impacting on the future generations of South Africans and back on German society, asking what developments are possible from (exile) history.R200.00
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JAA23 Beyond Exile @Gompo
16 Dec 23Creative students and scholars from underserved communities as well as jazz schools, will be given the wonderful opportunity for a dedicated workshop and master-class. This will serve to make an essential aspect of the buried cultural heritage accessible to a young generation of professional jazz musicians who have grown up in the post-Apartheid society.R0.00 -
A world class musical collaboration around the compositions of Johnny Dyani.R300.00
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To continue and expand this cultural bridge Jazz Against Apartheid has nurtured and to celebrate the friendships forged in exile and solidarity, a MENTOR & DIALOGUE SERIES provides a zoom link-up meetings for the JAA musicians in Frankfurt, Johannesburg, London, Berlin, East London. Buffalo City and Nelson Mandela Bay.
- Providing valuable documentation and sharing of the richness of the artistic heritage that has been cultivated over decades in Europe and especially in Germany.
- Making an essential aspect of the buried cultural heritage accessible to a young generation of professional jazz musicians who have grown up in the post-apartheid society.