MUSIC LEGENDS OF CAPE TOWN

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  • Interviews with artists
    • Brigitte Mitchell . . . lady sings the blues on National Women’s Day
    • Kramer ‘kids’ – Izobell, Abrahams, Adams boys – with an online special
    • Jonathan Butler: the kaalvoet klonkie is now a Doctor of Philosophy
    • Kyle Shepherd . . . a new album from a man born into a life of music
    • Onyx Phillips: gem of a taste for music, set in stone at an early age
    • Shaun Johannes: a gun bassist who could teach you a thing or two
    • Leslie K . . . a man for all reasons
    • Felicia Marion: Pure Joy on stage and firm in her faith in a long career
    • Gobi Martin . . . from Dixies ‘moppie’ singer to faith with his talent
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Mankunku: the story of the ‘raging bull’ of South African jazz
    • Oh Brother! . . . Fataar a flickering memory but an eternal Flame
    • Rashid Lombard . . . a photo-journalist and jazz lover who left a big print to remember him by
    • Peacock, Ntshoko, Dyers, Kwebulana . . .  heritage lost but not forgotten
    • Tony Cedras . . . travelled the world but roots stayed in Cape Town
    • Russell Herman: a revered musician always in tune with his guitar
    • Robert Sithole: the Kwela Kid who promised so much, left with so little
    • 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
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  • Memory Lane
    • Blasts from the past: do you remember . . .?

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Latest News

  • Taliep Petersen: Mr Entertainment . . . and a whole lot more besides October 10, 2022
  • Women’s Day: a time to honour the ‘rocks’, our unsung heroes August 9, 2022
  • Taliep Petersen: First book to detail life of our ‘Mr Entertainment’ April 15, 2022
  • Terry Fortune strikes gold with his line-up of ‘oldies’ for Baxter show February 10, 2022
  • Mr Paljas, the ground-breaking Cape Town musical few can remember January 12, 2022
  • 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

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  • hazel kirsten on Richard Jon Smith: 70 today, still a superstar and still keeping the faith
  • Warren Ludski on Jonathan Butler: the kaalvoet klonkie is now a Doctor of Philosophy
  • Milton van Wyk on Dave Bestman send off not even close to what his legacy deserves
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  • Rafs Mayet on Jonathan Butler: the kaalvoet klonkie is now a Doctor of Philosophy
  • Goitseone Taolo on Dave Bestman send off not even close to what his legacy deserves

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