Friday, April 13 at 8:00 PM
Iconic South African jazz legend Abdullah Ibrahim and his band Ekaya - with Freddie Hendrix in the trumpet chair - will present a concert program in tribute to The Jazz Epistles, South Africa’s first black jazz band, first recorded jazz group, and important contributors to modern jazz.
New arrangements of The Jazz Epistles original compositions from their 1959 recording, Jazz Epistle, Verse 1 will be woven into a beautiful concert program with Abdullah Ibrahim’s classic catalog. The Jazz Epistles music was almost lost forever - only 500 copies were pressed in 1959, buried, and rediscovered decades later after the tyranny of apartheid.