Yvonne Phyllis From The Forge On The Jazz Standard With Brenda Sisane FULL Conversation

With Nono, we move past the façade — past the filtered Instagram squares and glossy festival brochures — and into the engine room of the Western Cape’s live music machinery. How is it really functioning? Is it sustainable? Is it inclusive? Is it evolving or merely repeating what has worked…

2026 marks what would have been the 80th birthday of Steve Biko, and the December 2025 release of the isiXhosa translation of I Write What I Like arrives as both remembrance and gift - a return of his words to a language that carried his earliest consciousness. This isiXhosa edition…

A Taiwanese vibraphonist, contemporary percussionist, and composer whose work moves fluidly between discipline and freedom, tradition and reinvention, Chien Chien Lu has emerged as one of the most compelling artists of her generation. Her debut album, The Path, announced her arrival with clarity and conviction, while her collaborative work with…

A Haitian-American vocalist, songwriter, and composer, his rise over the past few years has been both swift and notable. From being named Outstanding Vocalist at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Essentially Ellington Competition by Wynton Marsalis, to winning the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, to topping American jazz radio charts…

Across more than three decades of recording, Javon Jackson has become somewhat of a musical archivist — revisiting the work of John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, and collaborating with poet Nikki Giovanni in a powerful fusion of jazz, gospel and spoken word. Soon he brings another tribute project to…