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Skills transfer and on-the-job training
JAZZ AGAINST APARTHEID is an international jazz music exchange programme which was originally founded in exile by JOHNNY DYANI from Duncan Village in collaboration with his German friend,Jurgen Leinhos, now 85 still active and resident in Frankfurt. These concerts continued in Europe over the years until the organizers decided to bring the project home to South Africa after this project received a national South African Presidential award in 2021.
For this years event the international team of Jazz musicians will hold training and mentoring workshops in Johannesburg and Buffalo City, whose main aim is what Germans call NACHWUCHSFORDERUNG. What is that? It is a nationally recognised tradition and policy by which knowledge and skills are purposefully transferred from the current generation to the next. In this context the veteran Jazz musicians hold capacity building and training jazz workshops directed at interested and upcoming youth from the townships.
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This Johnny Mbizo Dyani songbook is the result of the Jazz Against Apartheid movement, a powerful contribution for “my people, for my country,” as co-founder Johnny Mbizo Dyani said.
This cultural movement was continued annually after Dyani’s death in 1986 with performances of his compositions in concerts in Europe and America. These concerts united and profiled the liberation movement in exile whilst connecting to the progressive cultural activism of the Germans. These artistic collaborations featured jazz musicians of South African origin in exile and their European counterparts.
This offering serves to make an essential aspect of the buried cultural heritage accessible to a young generation of professional musicians who have grown up in the post-Apartheid society. The next generation may now learn of the richness of the artistic heritage that has been cultivated over decades in Europe and especially in Germany.
Dyani’s compositions show the merging of folk music and jazz music. He took the functionality of folk music and combined it with the freedom of jazz, to build a community abroad that fought the struggle against Apartheid and won. His compositions bridged music and society, and his harmonic approach had the effect of bringing solidarity and change to the social disharmony. It is a timeless approach. His music crossed over into multiple genres: “I am a folk musician,” said Dyani, “and I don’t like to see my work described as jazz because it introduces connotations that I don’t regard as relevant.”
Your contribution will ensure this magnificent work brings significant changes and progress to music education in South Africa from an individual to a community, national and international level.
Special thanks to Jürgen Leinhos and his Frankfurt-based initiative “Kultur im Ghetto” (Culture in the Ghetto) co-founder of Jazz Against Apartheid. Thanks to the transcriptions from Dyani’s recordings by Jazz Against Apartheid artistic director, saxophonist Daniel Guggenheim, international luminaries, trumpet maestro Claude Deppa from London, trombonis, educator Allen Jacobson from Canada and South African based collaborators, trumpeter Sakhile Simani and bass player Lex Futshane. Special gratitude to Nils Winther and Steeplechase Records.
Johnny Mbizo Dyani Songbook
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