Maverick Life

A whole world comes alive in Ivan Mazuze’s take on music from Africa

By S’bo Gyre

Op-eds

Independent black music production and marketing pioneer Rashid Vally takes his final bow

By David B. Coplan

World

US music supremo Quincy Jones, who worked with Sinatra and Jackson, dies at 91

By Reuters

South Africa

The Standard Bank Young Artist Awards and all that jazz

By S’bo Gyre

South Africa

KZN’s apartheid-resisting jazz pioneers riff on resistance and freedom’s form

By Mick Raubenheimer

World

Bard of the streets Kendrick Lamar hits South Africa for one concert

By Mick Raubenheimer

South Africa

Paying tribute to Winston ‘Mankunku’ Ngozi, the great sax musical man from Gugulethu

By Thuli Ngozi and Alistair Ruiters

South Africa

Take an inspiriting journey to jazz in the Karoo town of Prince Albert

By Sarah Hoek

South Africa

Test your knowledge of South African music that rocked the world with the DM168 online quiz

By Daily Maverick

Maverick Life

Gloria Bosman was more than a South African jazz vocalist, she was a guiding light

By Gwen Ansell

Magazine

Dissecting Stevie Wonder’s Superstition, 50 years after we first heard its infectious grooves

By Leigh Carriage

South Africa

Jazz legend Blackie Tempi – wife and friends remember a ‘heart of gold’ shaped by the ‘vibrancy of the townships’

By Victoria O’Regan and Velani Ludidi