Soweto Kinch – London’s sweetest Jazz boy
Wow – talk about a cool name – meet London’s youngest and most popular Jazz saxophonist Soweto Kinch – he’s not from South Africa – but he sure seems to carry a little South Western Township spirit n the way he blows that horn. At 28 he is kicking some touche, playing alongside Abdullah Ibrahim, Herbie Hancock, Cassandra Wilson and other fabulous Jazz muso’s at the London Jazz Fe… stival on right now in London. Other locals at the festival besides Dollar Brand are Bheki Mseleku and the sweet voiced and soulful Zimbabwean Jazz vocalist Netsayi, who sings in Shona. Click here for more on the London Jazz festival and to buy tickets. Here’s more on Soweto Kinch below or read an interview with him at FLY here (thx for the pic – photographer Damian Rafferty) and click here to hear/see him on YouTube: Born in London, England in 1978 to a Barbadian father and British-Jamaican mother, Soweto Kinch is one of the most exciting and versatile young musicians to hit the British jazz scene in recent years. He first became interested in music at the tender age of eight, playing clarinet at primary school. He quickly developed a fondness for the alto saxophone and was given his first instrument when he was nine. After meeting Wynton Marsalis four years later he discovered and became passionate about jazz, first concentrating on piano and later, in his teens, focusing on alto saxophone. Soweto’s musical influences are as broad as they are diverse. He particularly admires Sonny Rollins for his innovative style and successful appropriation of West Indian music within the jazz canon. Most recently, Soweto has been influenced by baroque and early classical music due to an interest he has in the 17th and 18th century black population of Britain. He is keen to reconstruct the African and classical influences that this community would have had. As an alto player, Soweto is rapidly developing his own sound which is rich, energetic and dynamic and though he clearly has a strong respect for tradition, he is continually exploring his jazz inheritance. In 2001 he established the Soweto Kinch Trio – with bassist Michael Olatuja and drummer Troy Miller, both exceptional young players – which supported Courtney Pine at the former Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, Birmingham and performed at the Royal Festival Hall and Cheltenham International Jazz Festival. His aim with the Trio was to move audiences with the simplicity of his band and to discover the breadth of sounds and dynamics he could achieve with these basic elements. At the end of 2002, Soweto began work on his dýbut album, extending...
David Matamela dances tonight!
David Matamela is one of our country’s most talented and respected choreographers and dancers. Catch this intimate performance as he performs a “sensual duet” to the sounds of World music tonight! Info: Flute and guitar duo Wouter Kellerman and Paul Whellock create music inspired by musical traditions ranging from European Classical, African, Irish folk, Flamenco and more. They are joined by per…cussionist Phresh Makhene. Guest dancers David Matamela and Carmia Cruywagen will be performing a sensual duet. DATE: Friday, 3rd November TIME: 7pm COST: R50 at door, includes coffee and cake VENUE: Rudolf Steiner Centre, Michael Mt. Waldorf School 235 Bryanston drive, Bryanston (Parking at Culross road entrance, off Main rd.) Booking is essential – contact Tholsi Pillay on 082 660 0125 Background: Wouter has been the principle flautist of the National Youth Orchestra and has performed as soloist with the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra. In recent years, he has turned his attention to world music and has performed on four continents in the last year. Locally he has worked with artists like Nianell, JB Arthur, Mauritz Lotz, David Matamela and Paul Whellock. Paul’s love affair with the guitar has sustained his musical passion for many years. He has a background in classical technique and a teaching diploma. For the past two years, he has been concentrating on creating and performing music for the guitar along with Wouter Kellerman on flutes....
Catch Taxidermie tonight and tomorrow
TAXIDERMIE Contemporary dance Tuesday the 24th and Wednesday the 25th of October 2006. At Wits Theatre, 8pm Price R70.00, students R10.00 on presentation of student card. Limited seats available. The creation of ý Taxidermie ý in Maputo is the third step of a project of French contemporary dance company Projet in situ involving four cities: Mexico city, Montrýal, Maputo and M… arseilles (the 4 M). How does a city allow us to live, think and create? The 4 M project starts with this simple question. 4 M as in Mexico, Montreal, Maputo and Marseille: the four cities where Projet In Situ has carried out research (choreographic, visual, anthropologic) on the intimate, urban existence of local artists. Intimacy of the city, human messiness, recycling of gestures, trajectories of nervous systems, dead ends to change &.To set out on a journey to meet a city, to encounter its infinite quantity of gestures. The first stopover was in Mexico City in 2002, then Montreal in 2005,a third stopover in Maputo in 2006. In the city, in this public space par excellence, the everyday intimacies of each individual and the collective body rub against each together. This physical duality is at the heart of our choreographic research. How to perceive and forget an environment that is influencing our perceptions? If one is convinced that the senses have their own vast memory that allows for the re-emergence of memories, of emotions, of early gestures then a question emerges of ‘how to rediscover ones’ own ‘seeing’?’ To see what remains when you forget to look, what we might invent without a mirror, seeing without looking, touching without actually touching. Here we envisage the body circulating within city in its various states within its everyday journeys. The urban space is understood as a collection of personal routes to be taken to keep the city circulating, designing corridors of movement, one way streets, and bodies creating obstacles to their own momentum forwards. In the city of Maputo, French, Mozambican, Zimbabwean and South-African artists have been searching for traces of memory, forms of forgetfulness, revealing bodies impregnated with those urban, intimate and collective memory. In Maputo the city failures became like excavation sites. By confronting oneself to these spaces, one could design the structures; feel the shapes, the surfaces of spaces, buildings, sounds and bodies. A radicality, a physicality, an intimacy close to one could have with one’s skeleton has aroused out of those elements placed side by side, their reflects playing one with another. Choreography: Martin Chaput, Martial Chazallon Assisted by: Panaibra Gabriel Dancers: Domingos Biý, Panaibra Gabriel, Janete Mulapha Scenography: Berry Bickle Music: Dimitri Voudouris Light:...
60s week in Maftown – get your ticket!
Oh yes, when you hear about the 60’s party in Mafikeng, you know the year is almost a wrap. This year Represent is determined to go and hang out in the North West at thier 9th annual event – nine years – amazing hey! Bonus is they have now expanded the event from just a party into a 3 day event… OMG the babelaas. See you there! Nare Events and Marketing brings you once again the 9th annual S…ixties Costume Party, Maftown ‘s own all time rockers. From the 1st to the 3rd of December Maftown will explode once again. On the 1st December we will have a Pre Sixties “Foam” Party at Da Garage. On the 2nd December will be the main Sixties Costume Party at Monare Farm, 15 minute drive away from the North West Province in Mafikeng, in the middle of nowhere lies oasis of banyana, basimane le mmino. We promise you an unimaginable year to indulge yourself and your peers. 2006 is the year to make 60’s fashion statement retro. 2 dance floors, with the most rocking DJ’s will give you the fun you have never experienced before. Cover Charge: R 170 VIP gets you for the Pre Sixties as well as the main sixties party : R 50 gets you in for only Pre Sixties “Foam” Party : R 130 gets you in at the main Sixties Costume Party For more information contact the below people or visit our website. www.sixtiesparty.co.za Here’s more info: The Annual Sixties party (Mmabatho North- West) takes place annually during the first weekend of December. Sixties has been running for the past six years and continues to grow in stature with the addition of every annual chapter. It attracts young partygoers from all over the country (and some parts of the Southern African sub-continent – Botswana & Lesotho). This is made possible through viral marketing as a result of the wide network of connections the people who attend have in the popular culture social scene. So the event plays host to a unique melting pot of urban cultures with young people from a wide range of towns and cities like Mafikeng, Gaborone, Maseru, Jo’burg and everywhere else coming together for a massive celebration that goes on until the sun comes out, and if you have the stamina into the early afternoon. The event affords young people a rare opportunity to escape into another reality. Its location is on a private farm just outside Mafikeng, the North West Provincial capital. This location, away from the hustle and bustle of city life offers people from the major urban centers across the...
Deep Soul Sessions with Vinni
Deep Soul Sessions is a premium Deep House club night, started by international Deep House pioneer Vinny da Vinci after going all over the world looking for what he wants in a good night, being a good deep and soulful house music, a good sound system and beautiful people. Deep Soul Sessions has been pumping at legendary Joburg club 115 for over 3 years now and has just celebrated 1 year in Cape T…own in March this year. Join Vinny da Vinci, just back from the UK and his residency in Ibiza and Cape Town Nightlife for the launch of the Summer Survival Kit on 3 November 2006. DEEP SOUL SESSIONS Friday 3 November 2006 DJ’s VINNY DA VINCI, PETER ABRAHAMS, MICHAEL LESAR Club Tonic (96 Long Street) DOORS OPEN 10PM – LADIES FREE BEFORE 11 R40 before 11pm – R60...
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