Workshops 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.
The bassist and composer Johnny Mbizo Dyani, along with the drummer Makaya Ntshoko, were some of the first to go into exile in Europe and, with a strong commitment, embodied the struggle for South Africa’s cultural memory. Both of them, as representatives of others, taught us that the sources of jazz are African. And both…