Seton Hawkins

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Bheki Mseleku

We've got some magical stuff going for you right now in #SouthAfricanJazz on SiriusXM's Real Jazz channel

Nduduzo Makhathini and the Music of Bheki MselekuThe JLCO with Wynton Marsalis Take a musical journey through South African jazz with visionary pianist Nduduzo Makhathini. This dynamic concert finds the JLCO with Wynton Marsalis channeling the iconic sounds of multi-instrumental...

Our second week of music curated by Nduduzo Makhathini will run on SiriusXM Real Jazz's #SouthAfricanJazz show this Sunday at 7 pm ET and Monday at 5 pm ET.

Nduduzo picked selections of his music and of Bheki Mseleku's in advance of his hows at @jazzdotorg.bsky.social

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Trip Shakespeare's "Lulu"

I think this album came out about fifteen years ahead of its time. It's magical, and it would have been a serious cult classic had it come out circa 2006.

Pianist Nduduzo Makhathini comes to Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Theater Oct. 24-25 for two special concerts with the JLCO & Wynton Marsalis that will journey through South African jazz with performances of works by Bheki Mseleku & Makhathini. Tickets: jazz.org/nduduzo

A shame they vote against their self interest then

Agreed - a highlight of the evening

On Friday I brought my Abdullah Ibrahim CDs to work and we got a nerdy and enthusiastic in advance of his concerts.

On Wednesday, Aaron Rimbui and I will kick off a six-week course on Abdullah's and Bheki Mseleku's music for Swing University. Hope to see you there!

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Learned about MTM through Seton Hawkins' South African Jazz show on SXM a few years back and picked it up. It's still within arm's reach of my stereo. The title track sounds like the soundtrack to the coolest video game set in a warm climate. Every time I hear it, my soul smiles.

That is one of the all-time best

In The Short Fuse Podcast, host Elizabeth Howard talks with @setonhawkins.bsky.social, the Director of Public Programs and Educational Resources at Jazz at Lincoln Center, about Jazz at @lincolncenter.bsky.social Orchestra’s “Mother Africa” season.

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RIP Hermeto Pascoal (1936-2025)

📸 Jeff Caltabiano, Brooklyn, NY, 5.25.23

Next week in #SouthAfricanJazz on SiriusXM Real Jazz we'll hear music from Bheki Mseleku and from Tlokwe Sehume. We'll also dive into award recipients from this year's Mzantsi Jazz Awards, w/ tracks from Thembi Dunjana, Adam Glasser, Themba Mkhize, Ncesh Nonxishi, Sydney Mavundla, and Gabi Motuba.

It's channel 67 on the Sirius XM dial, and they also have an app that one can download. But it's satellite radio, so it does require a subscription

Emotional hearing #SouthAfricanJazz show this evening: our 200th. We started in Jan 2020 at SiriusXM studios before doing it at home (on a Blue Yeti) when COVID hit. Since then my microphone got better, my speaking didn't, but the music stayed magnificent. Playlist: www.cityofgoldarts.org/siriusxm

African Piano Suite Digging in with the Bokani Dyer Trio

Pianist and composer Bokani Dyer grew up among South African exiles in Botswana, and has become a leading jazz artist from the region. I caught his trio the other night in Philly; I reckon this is the only proper review from his North American tour.

CDs of South African Jazz

Next week in #SouthAfricanJazz on SiriusXM Real Jazz we air the our 200th episode!

We'll hear from Glen Mafoko, Estelle Kokot, Xixel Langa, Frank Paco, Andile Q, Mike Laatz, Phinda, Nishlyn Ramanna, Benguela, GTX Xaba, and Oupa Makhubela

Sunday at 7 pm ET, Monday at 5 pm ET on Channel 67.

Life, by Eddie Palmieri from the album Sabiduría

The world is worse off now without Eddie in it.
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"Why would I want to read something nobody could be bothered to write?"

Citation needed

i have been shouting about this for literal years!!! listings are so important

Laszlo Cravensworth

Genuinely surprised that this King hasn't been brought up in the thread yet

Can't wait for Sisonke Xonti to make his United States debut next week! Come to Dizzy's if you get a chance. #SouthAfricanJazz

YouTube video by Megi Pozzi Dollar Brand "Memories of You"

This month marks the centennial of Kippie Moeketsi. To the extent that ANYONE can claim the mantle as the godfather of South Africa's Jazz scene, that honor would go to Kippie. So much beautiful music, but this 1971 duet with Abdullah Ibrahim will always hold my heart www.youtube.com/watch?v=xku-...

SiriusXM Show — City of Gold Arts

This week in #SouthAfricanJazz on SiriusXM Real Jazz we paid tribute to the songbook of Abdullah Ibrahim through recordings of his music as performed by Pharoah Sanders, Zim Ngqawana, Anat Cohen, Chris McGregor, and many more. Full playlist here: southafricanjazz.org

Very cool, and a little bit of John Hartford energy

There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc. There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation. There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely. Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual. As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone. Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism. No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get: The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.

Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
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Well, at least you now to get hear a shark roar?

Funnily enough, I was working at Carnegie Hall this time 20 years ago. A lifetime, indeed!