Two great jazz evenings tonight and
tomorrow from The Centre for Jazz and Popular Music at the University of
KwaZulu-Natal:
March 4: Raphael Imbert (FRA) and Neil
Gonsalves in Concert
March 5: Composer Sihle Zungu’s project: Journeying On Live
Sax player, composer, improvisator,
teacher, researcher Raphaël Imbert
(Fra) (March 4) is the Artistic director of Cie Nine Spirit since 1999. He
started playing the saxophone at the age of 15 and has gone on to develop his
own vision of music and jazz, linked to the specific spirituality of jazz
creation. He creates the “Nine Spirits” to play the sacred musics by Duke
Ellington, John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler and others. He recorded
5 CDs for Zig Zag Territoires Label, including Bach Coltrane, an original work about improvisation, creative music
and classical expression.
Journeying
On (March 5) is an offering by young, talented
composer and lyricist Sihle Zungu, who brought some of Durban’s most talented
young and high skilled jazz musicians together to perform his compositions. His
music has a basis of jazz, but also reggae and gospel influences. He brings you
his unique perspective and experience through love songs, social awareness
songs and spiritual songs. On sale will be the Journeying On live album which was recorded in 2013 at the Grahamstown
Arts Festival and The Jazzy Rainbow. The band consists of Ndu Shezi (lead
vocal), Lindelwe Ngonelo (piano), Mxolisi Mdlalose (sax), Sidney Rash (drums)
and Ildo Nandja (bass)
The Centre for Jazz and Popular Music
(CJPM) is at Level 2, Shepstone Building at UKZN Howard College Campus. Doors
open at 17h30 and music starts at 18h00. Entry fee is R40 (R20 pensioners and R15
students). For more details contact Thuli on 031 260 3385 or email Zamat1@ukzn.ac.za
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