Johannesburg — One of South Africa's greatest jazz musicians, Allen Kwela, died of asthma on Monday at the age of 64, his sister-in-law Seipati More said on Tuesday. "The humble yet talented Kwela was ...

Part charismatic stylist, part purist grouch — impressions of guitarist Allen Kwela are as commonplace as they are reductive. In some, he appears as a fully formed Wes Montgomery disciple versed in ...

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“There’s so much soul in that little whistle that we blow,” says Tshepo. The youngest of the pennywhistle playing Kwela Tebza brothers pauses in the middle of a rhapsody about rocking the African ...

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 ...

Cuneiform Records is single-handedly keeping the spirit of one of the great latter-day jazz movements alive: the South African-London nexus of the 60s and 70s. In the mid- 60s, several jazz musicians ...

He was in 'King Kong' at the age of 14, and went on to play sax for the Soul Brothers "Another Soul Brother has died!" This was the social media buzz that followed the death of Lemmy "Special" Mabaso ...