Accidents are part and parcel of any kind of improvised music. Such occurrences can be fickle things with a capacity to make or break a situation. So, when Chris McGregor was prevented from joining ...

The good-quality low-fi sound and raw energy of this previously unreleased live recording from Ronnie Scott’s Old Place couldn’t be more of a contrast to Hancock’s shimmering populist outreach.

The Blue Notes' fiery kwela-flavoured jazz lit up the British scene. But its upbeat vibe commingled with sadness about separation from family, friends and roots back in South Africa. Becoming refugees ...

The closest the album has to a title is “Kwela L.P.”, a handle drawn from the shuffling South African musical style which in the early Sixties had seeped into Bert Kaempfert’s "A Swingin' Safari".

It seems like a hundred years ago but the first time I saw Dudu Pukwana was a rammed night at the 100 Club and, if memory serves, Elton Dean called Dudu up to jam with the Blue Flames. One of London ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The reissue of two recording sessions by Dudu Pukwana and the 'Spears' adds a vital missing piece to the incomplete jigsaw puzzle that is South African jazz history. Oxford University Jazz Society, ...

South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela joins Alyn Shipton to select highlights from his recording career, including his work with the Jazz Epistles and his records with Dudu Pukwana. Show more South ...

Dudu Pukwana was one of the Golden generation of South African jazz musicians who went into exile in the early 1960s. Pukwana ended up in London, and Duduvudu sees many of his confreres from the time ...

When Ronnie Scott moved his club to new premises at the end of 1965, there were 18 months of lease left on the old place, which he handed over to young musicians, these two among them. Stuckey was a ...