MUSIC LEGENDS OF CAPE TOWN

WARREN LUDSKI TALKS TO THE ELDERS

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  • Interviews with artists
    • 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
    • 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

Search Results for: Walter

Sweet, gentle Walter Brown – gone but not forgotten

One of the gentlest of souls I have ever had the pleasure of interviewing, singer Walter Brown, died in Cape Town on Wednesday. Whilst Walter never achieved the great heights of some of his contemporaries of the Sixties, he nonetheless enjoyed great respect and high regard from all who knew him. I first met Walter […]

Posted in Uncategorized on February 19, 2015 by Warren Ludski. 1 Comment

Molly Baron . . . when you smiled, the whole world smiled with you

22 November 2020 Veteran Cape Town musician John Arthur Baron, died suddenly on Thursday. Many music lovers won’t know that name. They’ll remember him as Molly Baron, long-time drummer of one of South Africa’s best-known groups. They’ll remember a dedicated musician, a humble person, a great entertainer – and someone who had one of the […]

Posted in Uncategorized on November 22, 2020 by Warren Ludski. 4 Comments

Molly Baron: a “Rocket man’ . . . and yes, it’s been a long, long time

  The Rockets. Molly Baron. There was a time when the two were synonymous. Interchangeable. But that was a long time ago. Almost 20 years ago in fact. There was a parting of the ways. Molly went on to follow his faith and do his own thing and The Rockets carried on being one of […]

Posted on July 18, 2017 by Warren Ludski. 16 Comments

Farewell Jerry Hector, you funny man

It hasn’t been a good few weeks for the entertainment scene in Cape Town – in quick succession we’ve lost singers Zane Adams and Walter Brown, and drummer Vic Higgins. Now comedian Jerry Hector has left us for that big stage in the sky. The one-time funny man of stage shows in and around Cape […]

Posted in Uncategorized on March 16, 2015 by Warren Ludski. 12 Comments

Latest News

  • Eldred Schilder thinks it’s time to stand tall with his 2m double bass April 16, 2021
  • Molly Baron . . . when you smiled, the whole world smiled with you November 22, 2020
  • Heritage Day, D6 vocal groups, and the museum that must not die September 24, 2020
  • Sophia Foster’s Aretha tribute is pushing for a world audience September 4, 2020
  • Richard Ceasar and Camillo Lombard online . . . that’s tops, dog! July 25, 2020
  • Four musos leave us to rock on at a big gig in the sky July 3, 2020
  • Marc Lottering hits ‘home run’ with a crowd of 18,000 in the front room June 26, 2020
  • Ramon Alexander and his quartet . . . ‘live’ online in your front room June 24, 2020
  • Support your local artists, they need it – and local is lekker! May 30, 2020
  • Happy birthday Louis Moholo-Moholo . . . may the rhythm in your heart beat a lot longer March 10, 2020

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  • Trevor. Innes on Eldred Schilder thinks it’s time to stand tall with his 2m double bass
  • Dennis Pillay on Invaders’ Shockwave still electric and causing ripples decades later
  • Warren Ludski on Hail Ceasar, lend him your ears! He is a musician of note
  • Callie on Hail Ceasar, lend him your ears! He is a musician of note
  • Peter Richardson on Zane Adams . . . shining star
  • Ann Solomons on Touring Dixies Paved Way 60 Years Ago – and some never came back
  • Ingrid Maritz on Wine-maker Ramon Alexander . . . don’t give up your night job!
  • Warren Ludski on Invaders’ Shockwave still electric and causing ripples decades later
  • ISAAC METEMBO on Invaders’ Shockwave still electric and causing ripples decades later
  • Peter Maris on Four musos leave us to rock on at a big gig in the sky
  • Vivienne Aliveriotis on Molly Baron: a “Rocket man’ . . . and yes, it’s been a long, long time
  • Jackie Kinnear on Molly Baron: a “Rocket man’ . . . and yes, it’s been a long, long time

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