Thembi Dunjana
https://amf.didiermary.fr/thembi-dunjana/
Thembi Dunjana is a female jazz pianist from South Africa, and “a lover of hip hop sounds, rhythmic displacement and cool possibilities”. She received the Mzantsi Jazz award in 2021 and was a Basadi in Music award nominee in 2022.
Her album [God Bless iKapa. God Bless Mzantsi.] is a homage to the pianist’s home […]
Maloya Jazz Xperianz
https://amf.didiermary.fr/maloya-jazz-xperianz/
Mon Péi (“mon pays” en créole) est le dernier album publié par Maloya Jazz Xperianz, après un premier EP sorti en 2014. Fondé par la saxophoniste et flûtiste réunionnaise Emy Potonié, le groupe propose un Jazz métissé.
Le Maloya est une musique typique de l’île française de La Réunion, héritée notamment des esclaves africains et classée […]
Abraham Mennen
https://amf.didiermary.fr/abraham-mennen/
Abraham Mennen is a South African saxophonist, improvisor and composer. In 2019, he released “The Really Revered Whole Story.”
Abdullah Ibrahim – Mannenberg
https://amf.didiermary.fr/abdullah-ibrahim-mannenberg/
Filmed in 1987, Abdullah Ibrahim describes in this interview how the iconic track “Mannenberg” came into being and performs it live. Taken from the BBC Arena film “A Brother with Perfect Timing.”
“Mannenberg” is a Cape jazz song by South African musician Abdullah Ibrahim, first recorded in 1974. Driven into exile by the apartheid [...]
#AbdullahIbrahim #Apartheid #Documentary #Jazz #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz
Momo Wandel Soumah – Felenko Yéfé
https://amf.didiermary.fr/momo-wandel-soumah-felenko-yefe/
Momo Wandel Soumah (1926 – 2003), était un chanteur, compositeur et saxophoniste de Guinée, reconnaissable à sa voix rocailleuse caractéristique et son style de saxophone très personnel et inspiré.
Imaginez Louis Armstrong avec un saxophone en Guinée, Roi du Swing et de l’Improvisation.
“Le jazz est né chez vous, mais moi, je l’ai ramené chez […]
Omar Sosa & Rajery – Tsiaro Tsara
https://amf.didiermary.fr/omar-sosa-rajery-tsiaro-tsara/
Cuban composer and pianist Omar Sosa has spent ten years shaping An East African Journey (2021), fusing jazz and traditional African music, with multiple artists from East Africa.
An exquisite set of world music recordings featuring 7-time GRAMMY-nominated Cuban composer and pianist Omar Sosa collaborations [...]
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Ami Taf Ra live on KEXP (11/2025)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YpWmLMrqN8
Songs:
Law Kaana Qalbi 00:28
Speak To Us 03:36
How I Became A Madman 04:57
Love 11:56
The Prophet 21:14
See also: https://indieweb.social/@blogamf/115187302700266326
Okyerema Asante – Mother Africa
https://amf.didiermary.fr/okyerema-asante-mother-africa/
“Mother Africa” from the album "Drum Message," a seminal bit of funky Afrojazz from the DC scene of the 70s!
The album features work by Okyerema Asante (Ghanaian master percussionist) and also includes sax work by James “Plunky” Branch (aka Plunky Nkabinde) — best known as the leader of the group Oneness Of Juju. […]
Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O – Umdali
https://amf.didiermary.fr/malcolm-jiyane-tree-o-umdali/
A generous sideman and bandleader, multi-instrumentalist Malcolm Jiyane stands at the vanguard of his prodigious generation of jazz musicians. Operating from the centre and the fringes of the South African jazz scene, the trombonist (and pianist) is an enigmatic yet charismatic galvaniser of his contemporaries, able to put them through their paces in his own […]
Shabaka - Eyes Lowered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68HbFFNGVMk
From the new album 'Of The Earth' to be released on March 6, 2026
https://shabaka.bandcamp.com/album/of-the-earth
(Yes, this is the Shabaka you know...)
'Of the Earth’ was entirely written, produced, performed and mixed by Shabaka.
Lionel Loueke – Cantaloupe Island
https://amf.didiermary.fr/lionel-loueke-cantaloupe-island/
HH, released in 2020, album of solo guitar reworkings of Herbie Hancock’s music by Lionel Loueke.
HH is an album from Lionel Loueke playing the music of his long-term mentor, the legendary Herbie Hancock.
Known for his ability to “transform the guitar into a virtual Afro-Western orchestra” (Jazz Times), he is a musician who transcends genre […]
Kokoroko – We Give Thanks
https://amf.didiermary.fr/kokoroko-we-give-thanks/
8-piece band Kokoroko released their long-awaited debut album “Could We Be More” in August 2022.
Could We Be More is an expansive and ambitious album that speaks to the force of Kokoroko.
Each song possesses the energy which so naturally underpins the heartbeat of Kokoroko’s identity – deftly moving through afrobeat, highlife, soul, and funk across […]
One Night in Pelican
https://amf.didiermary.fr/one-night-pelican/
“One Night in Pelican” is a compilation that features all the key groups and players of a special time and place. It captures the musical dreams escaping from Soweto’s first nightclub.
Ten seminal tracks journeying through Jazz, Funk, Fusion and Disco, detailing the incredible story and sounds behind the Soweto nightclub during the height of […]
#70smusic #AfroFunk #Apartheid #Jazz #SoulJazz #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz
