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10/15/2013
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CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: South African Jazz Reawakens: The Recording Debut of Kheswa and Her Martians

Nowhere do the parallel cultural identities of South Africa and the United Statesa€’nowhere does our parallel racial ethosa€’speak to us more intriguingly than through jazz. The jazz vernacular has thrived in both countries thanks to a visceral connection to abstract truths and cultural realities owned in common by our two countries. If you are hip to the richness and renaissance of jazz in today’s South Africa, or just curious, you will not want to ignore Nonhlanhla Kheswa, an actress and vocalist who has reinvigorated a « fourth pole » for the music (after Cape Town, Johannesburg, and London) in New York City…