(Mlungisi Gegana)
UKZN’s Centre for
Jazz and Popular music will present Mlungisi Gegana on April 20.
Jazz enthusiasts
across South Africa have been sitting up and listening to the sounds of
Mlungisi Gegana’s bass guitar for years. His visit to Durban is much
anticipated and long anticipated.
His passion for
jazz was realized in 1986. He moved to Cape Town where he began to perform his
own music and lead his own band. Eventually Gegana relocated to Johannesburg
where he landed a recording deal. He went to studio with the best in the
recording industry including Louis Mhlanga, Godfrey Mgcina, Andile Yenana, and
Vusi Khumalo.
His ten tracks
debut album One Step Forward was
released in 2004. In 2013, he led an international Quintet at the Standard Bank
Joy of Jazz festival that paid tribute to a late South African bassist Johnny
Dyani, who died in exile in 1986. In 2014, he recorded his second solo album
independently, I Am Who Am I under
his own label, Mlugee Music.
Join Mlungisi
Gegana (acoustic bass) on April 20 at 18h00 at The Centre for Jazz and Popular
Music with Wandile Molefe (piano) and Paki Peloeole (drums). Doors open at 17h30
with the show starting at 18h00. General admission R60 (R40 pensioners, R20 students).
Contact Thuli on 031 260 3385 or email Zamat1@ukzn.ac.za for more details.
The Centre for Jazz
and Popular Music (CJPM) is situated on Level 2, Shepstone Building at UKZN
Howard College Campus.
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