Next week is a busy week for the UKZN Centre for Jazz. They have
“Twosday” show Afro-Fusion World Music Ensemble, Wednesday with Lauren
Henricks, and the next installation of Science and Jazz.
Tuesday April 22 at 17h30 The Centre for Jazz and Popular Music proudly present a Cape Town based the spectacular Cape Town ensemble Abavuki.
This Afro-Fusion World Music Ensemble for six years and they have been described as “absolutely incredible” & “riveting”! After performing in 13 countries to crowds of up to 80,000 people, this will be their first time in Durbs!
The music is based on traditional African instruments (marimbas, drums & percussion) overlaid with brass (trumpet / trombone / saxophone) and vocals to create their unique, vibrant & contemporary Mzansi sound, firmly based on African music principles & influenced by kwaito, jazz and Latin American rhythms.
Bring the family - especially if your youngsters are in a marimba band or doing any kind of music - their minds will be blown! Doors open at 17h00 and music starts at 17h30.
(Left: Lauren Hendricks. Pic
supplied)
Wednesday April 23: Hidden Gems - A tribute to women of colour in South Africa, a presentation by Lauren Hendricks
Hidden Gems is a tribute to not only women of colour musicians in South African jazz from past to present but also highlighting their important contributions through their inspiring original works in a performance.
This performance is presented by Lauren Hendricks, a young musician/photographer who recently graduated with her masters in jazz studies at the University of Cape Town.
She explains; “My intent behind this performance/s is to create a space to pay tribute to iconic female musicians of colour in the South African jazz industry who have paved the way for many who have come before them. My aim is to bring recognition to these unseen heroines of South African Jazz through putting together a special performance that will feature all original compositions by a few pivotal voices that have made a lasting impact on the industry. This performance is a musical representation of a sense of community and a deep history through voices and song brought together to celebrate those who came before us and ensure the youth that their voice is of importance as well.”
This selection of South African Jazz repertoire has specifically been selected to represent women from each era, eg the past, the present and the future. This will feature musical works by legends such as Sathima Bea Benjamin a vocalist and composer who worked and recorded with the great Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane to name a few while living in the USA with her then husband Abdullah Ibraham. It will also feature singer/songwriter Tina Schouw who made her mark on the SA jazz scene in the late 1980’s and early 90’s focusing her music around the struggles of the time. There will also be a feature made by award-winning vocalist/composer/arranger and lecturer Abigail Petersen who came to light in the early 2000’s while working with Mike Campbell, Darryl Andrews and the iconic duo David Kramer and Taliep Petersen.
Hendricks adds: “I will also feature my original compositions focusing on the journey of young musicians. I believe this is an important and necessary project that celebrates the rich history of woman colour in South African jazz, featuring stories of our ancestors and the creating space for the upcoming youth. This new experience of live music and artwork is not to be missed.”
Gig listing:
Hiddengems takes place on April 23 at the UKZN Centre for Jazz and Popular Music. Doors open at 17h00, Music starts at 17h30.
Tickets: R130, R95 for pensioners, R65 for students. Bookings are now open at Webtickets!
https://www.webtickets.co.za/v2/event.aspx?itemid=1564979599
Science and Jazz
In celebration of the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, the newly-initiated Science with Jazz Seminar Series presents a stimulating April programme at the UKZN Centre for Jazz.
Taking place on April 24, the show opens at 17h00 and features Speaker: Quantum Scientist Professor Bienvenu Ndagano and Jazz Artists Ernest Dawkins and Sibusiso Mash Mashiloane.
The Centre for Jazz and Popular Music is located at Shepstone Building Level 2, Howard College Campus.
Abstract :
What happens as one tries to travel at the speed of light?
Einstein’s theory predicts that for a given object with a certain mass, time
will slow down as it approaches the speed of light, though never reaching. But
what about light itself? Light particles, known as photons, have no mass and
travel at the speed of light. Unlike for us human beings, time does not flow
for photons.
Imagine a photon generated at the time of the Big Bang,
flying through the expanding universe to reach our eye. While scientists would
say that this series of events would have taken 13 million years, for that
travelling photon, it took no time at all; everything happened at once.
In quantum optics, we observe multiple phenomena that do not
seem to care about time. In this seminar, we will explore the arrow of time in
the context of quantum interferometry. This is a technique that has been used
as a sophisticated stopwatch for photons, a method of timing light using light
itself.
We will ask our photon a very mundane question: when did you
arrive? We will see that the answer to
this question is more complicated than it appears and that photons have a knack
for betraying our intuition and understanding of the physical world.
Bookings are now open at Webtickets!
https://www.webtickets.co.za/v2/event.aspx?itemid=1564979599
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