MUSIC LEGENDS OF CAPE TOWN

WARREN LUDSKI TALKS TO THE ELDERS

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  • Interviews with artists
    • Annemie Nel . . . not your classic drummer but she’s all class
    • Hilton Gelderbloem . . . ‘I write the songs’ that others can sing
    • Muneeb Hermans: a cool jazz sound from the heart of the Cape Flats
    • Jonathan Butler: our one-time teenybopper idol is a senior citizen today
    • Richard Jon Smith: 70 today, still a superstar and still keeping the faith
    • Billy Brink — 50 years on his music still gives us food for thought
    • Eldred Schilder feels it’s about time to stand tall with his 2m double bass
    • Invaders’ Shockwave still electric and causing ripples decades later
    • Birthday boy Mervyn Africa: ‘play us a song, you’re the piano man, you’ve got us feelin’ alright’
    • Vicky Sampson: a singer-activist-unionist in search of elusive African Dream
    • Joe Schaffers . . . he is a lot of things, but definitely not an ordinary Joe
    • Leslie K . . . a man for all reasons
    • Terry Fortune: Size isn’t everything
    • Hail Ceasar, lend him your ears! He is a musician of note
    • Wine-maker Ramon Alexander . . . don’t give up your night job!
    • Who is the local diva who’s done it all? Sylvia Mdunyelwa, of course
    • Steve Fataar: 75 with so much good music locked in a burning soul
    • The Flames burn brightly 50 years on thanks to ‘For Your Precious Love’
    • Touring Dixies Paved Way 60 Years Ago – and some never came back
    • Gary Kriel: 80 today and still playing a mean bass
    • Has Issy Ariefdien pulled the plug on a long and illustrious career?
    • The life and times of Ivor Wagner
    • Ibrahim Khalil Shihab . . . a name that strikes a familiar chord
    • Hilton Schilder: prince of music, steeped in jazz royalty
    • Madeegha Anders . . . ‘I am woman, hear me roar’
    • Jerry Watt: The Rockets’ clean-living and stable Mr Fantastic
    • Molly Baron: a “Rocket man’ . . . and yes, it’s been a long, long time
    • Alistair Izobell, motormouth extraordinaire
    • Harry Peacock: the jazz maestro who owes it all to the coons
    • Gary Hendrickse: a class act who should have given up his day job
    • Darryl Andrews: a musician in tune with what he wanted in life
    • Bernie Brown . . . the Sixties sensation who had so much more to give
    • Donjeany’s highlights reel: Praised by B.B. King, sacked by Nina Simone
    • Sammy Webber — a musician with vision (then again, maybe not)
    • Sophia Foster — The Lady Is A Vamp
    • Cliffie Moses . . . jazz singer, guitarist and (coon) trouper from the start
    • Dizu Plaatjies: his heart beats pure African music on the world stage
    • Harold Jefta’s music like a rhapsody in blue!
    • No joking, back then Dave Bestman was . . . the best man in the business
    • Happy birthday Louis Moholo-Moholo . . . may the rhythm in your heart beat a lot longer
    • The Flames burn brightly 50 years on thanks to ‘For Your Precious Love’
    • The trials and triumphs of Stephen Erasmus
    • Zelda Benjamin’s unlikely road to jazz singer
    • Who is Jack Momple . . .
    • ‘Bones’ is still a sheer Delight
    • No joking, back then Dave Bestman was . . . the best man in the business
    • Dizu Plaatjies: his heart beats pure African music on the world stage
    • Hilton Schilder: prince of music, steeped in jazz royalty
  • Tributes
    • Sammy Hartman: from child prodigy to maestro . . . to deserved legend
    • Goodbye Jerry Watt . . .  and, after 56 years, goodbye Rockets
    • Lionel Petersen: superb entertainer, ticked all the boxes – and then some
    • Gary Kriel: farewell to a local music giant
    • Dave Bestman send off not even close to what his legacy deserves
    • Steve Fataar . . . the man who gave us our first supergroup, The Flames
    • Angel Gabriel — Gentleman Roy was one of the stars of his time
    • My brother Zayn
    • A true professional
    • Zane Adams . . . shining star
    • Errol Dyers . . . the ‘quiet’ one but his guitar spoke volumes
    • Willie van Bloemestein: Mr Versatile and everybody’s favourite drummer
    • Ronnie Green . . . brought more than a touch of colour to the jazz scene
  • 20 Questions With . . .
    • The lure of classic radio . . . and 30 years of Mr Smooth, Clarence Ford
    • Rashid Lombard: semi-retired, now Cape Town’s ultimate jazz A-lister
    • Deejay Tubby lit up a few lives with some cool audiovisual excitement

20 Questions With . . .

DEEJAY TUBBY DEEJAY TUBBY LIT UP A FEW LIVES WITH SOME COOL AUDIOVISUAL EXCITEMENT

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  • MY NAME WAS PETER RECORDS.JAKOBUS on Richard Jon Smith: 70 today, still a superstar and still keeping the faith
  • Rob Harding on Who is Jack Momple . . .
  • berniebaroco on Cliffie Moses . . . jazz singer, guitarist and (coon) trouper from the start
  • Gordon Athlone on Cliffie Moses . . . jazz singer, guitarist and (coon) trouper from the start
  • Desiree on Invaders’ Shockwave still electric and causing ripples decades later
  • Paul Kahanovitz on Jonathan Butler: our one-time teenybopper idol is a senior citizen today
  • Sandra Humby Frost on Touring Dixies Paved Way 60 Years Ago – and some never came back
  • Admiral Chin Naidu on The Flames burn brightly 50 years on thanks to ‘For Your Precious Love’
  • Ravi Naidoo on Richard Jon Smith: 70 today, still a superstar and still keeping the faith
  • Jonathan Stevens on Sammy Hartman: from child prodigy to maestro . . . to deserved legend
  • Cindy Wilson-Trollip on Mr Paljas, the ground-breaking Cape Town musical few can remember
  • Paddy on Sammy Hartman: from child prodigy to maestro . . . to deserved legend
  • Paula on Madeegha Anders . . . ‘I am woman, hear me roar’
  • Tony Eva on Deejay Tubby lit up a few lives with some cool audiovisual excitement
  • Heather Erasmus Phigeland on The trials and triumphs of Stephen Erasmus

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