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Double-play (as Shado used to say on Metro): Georgia Anne Muldrow & Declaime live at Guga S’thebe plus Johnny Dyani live at Melkweg (Amsterdam).

Tagore’s Jazz Bar [ 42 Trill Road, Observatory, Cape Town ] Wednesday 11 July: Blacky Tempi’s Quartet featuring legendary pianist Tete Mambisa. Big sounds, swinging township melodies, sophisticated soulful harmonic voicings and a celebratory African rhythmic drive. Basically, the stuff of legends. Don’t miss it. Thursday 12 July: Ntone in session Friday 13 July: Makwerhu fuse African styles with seminal boogie funk, rock, classic ska, rocksteady and reggae roots. Saturday 14 July: Warongx bring Khaya blues Raw, loud and proud …  ( continue reading

Tagore’s Jazz Bar [ 42 Trill Road, Observatory, Cape Town ] Wednesday 20 June: Blacky Tempi’s Quartet combine big sounds, swinging township melodies, sophisticated soulful harmonic voicings and a celebratory African rhythmic drive. Basically, the stuff of legends. Don’t miss it. Thursday 21 June: Church Friday 22 June: Makwerhu fuse African styles with seminal boogie funk, rock, classic ska, rocksteady and reggae roots. Saturday 23 June: Hilton Schilder’s trio mix jazz, urban Khoi, goema and crossover sounds All shows from …  ( continue reading

Tagore’s Jazz Bar [ 42 Trill Road, Observatory, Cape Town ] Wednesday 13 June: Blacky Tempi’s Quartet featuring legendary pianist Tete Mambisa. Big sounds, swinging township melodies, sophisticated soulful harmonic voicings and a celebratory African rhythmic drive. Basically, the stuff of legends. Don’t miss it. Thursday 14 June: As Robert Glasper (channelling Taiwa Molelekwa) put it: ” I am not the future, I am now. Jazz is so far behind that the present actually looks like the future.” Nuff said. …  ( continue reading

Tagore’s Jazz Bar [ 42 Trill Road, Observatory, Cape Town ] Wednesday 6 June: Blacky Tempi’s Quartet featuring legendary pianist Tete Mambisa. Big sounds, swinging township melodies, sophisticated soulful harmonic voicings and a celebratory African rhythmic drive. Basically, the stuff of legends. Don’t miss it. Thursday 7 June: The mighty Mighty on the decks. Friday 8 June: Hassan’adas combine a little Samba groove with a splash of Marrabenta all fused with a twist of African jive. Saturday 9 June: The …  ( continue reading

Tagore’s Jazz Bar [ 42 Trill Road, Observatory, Cape Town ] Wed 30 May: The Dan Shout and his Quartet fuse driving post-rock, jazz and hard-cooking bebop with fierce African echoes to create original head nodding, feet tapping sounds. Thurs 31 May: DJ Ntone spins. It’s church: hypnotic, funky, grooving, off-kilter, real, raw, soulful, jazzy, dirty, deep, deeper… Fri 1 June: Ragas & Rhythms from Reza Khota and friends Sat 2 June: Pura aka Umyalezo presents The Funda Projekt featuring …  ( continue reading

Tagore’s Jazz Bar [ 42 Trill Road, Observatory, Cape Town ] Wed 23 May: Simbarembira mbira trio Thurs 24 May: A tribute to the life & work of Francois Luambo Makiadi a.k.a Franco Fri 25 May: Warongx blues band Sat 26 May: Ethan Smith trio All shows from 9.30pm and free For the live stream hit the ‘Listen to the live stream’ link on the left. Freedom.  ( continue reading

Tagore’s Jazz Bar [ 42 Trill Road, Observatory, Cape Town ] Wed 16 May: Simbarembira – mbira trio Thurs 17 May: Church Fri 18 May: Kanimambo Quartet (Christian Bakalanga, Joseph Avergel, Texito Langa & Ikotela Jose Lotombola) Sat 19 May: Ethan Smith Trio (with Claude Cozens and Brydon Bolton) All shows from 9.30pm and free For the live stream hit the ‘Listen to the live stream’ link on the left. Freedom.  ( continue reading

Tagore’s Jazz Bar [ 42 Trill Road, Observatory, Cape Town ] Wed 8 May – Bokani Dyer returns with more urban gospel blues, hard bop and serious soul jazz Thurs 9 May – Church – DJ Ntone: soulful, funky, grooving, super deep, cosmic, speaker-busting, off-kilter stylee! Friday 10 May – Texito Langa’s Quartet (with Emile Duse, Ethan Smith and Ludwe Danxa) – from Maputo to Cape Town and beyond… spontaneous, playful, fearless travelling sounds. Saturday 11 May – Jitsvinger Trio …  ( continue reading