Our guest is a jazz pianist, composer and author who introduced the first university jazz course in Africa in 1984 and established the internationally famous Centre for Jazz & Popular Music on the Durban campus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Throughout this time he toured internationally leading professional and student groups and playing with some of South Africa’s top musicians.
Together with his wife, Catherine they wrote a memoir, about their 23 years in South Africa.
“Playing the changes” which is also a documentary, examines why and how jazz had such a transformative role in different societies such as (post-)Soviet Poland and Mandela’s South Africa
The documentary is coming to our shores and you and I get the front row seat.
