These musicians teach, mentor, and tell about wide influences and a range of options that have helped grow their musical styles. Free expression, both chordal and harmonic, is more disciplined, yet allows for both the traditional spirituality nuances to flourish while seeking their modern identities, purpose, and place in this world.
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Article on Jazz in the Native Yards event

Young music graduates from schools of music explore new themes and experiment with combinations of band styles with fellow musicians. They respect diversity but desire to break out of older, set norms. They zestfully experiment, fly wings, and examine whether ethnicity or the oneness of humanity is more important. Some not-so-young artists have found their voices and are leading others, but their purpose is to continue that journey.
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Article on Dinga Sikwebu and reflections on jazz

Article on the All Jazz Radio celebrating female jazz artists on National Women's Day

Article on latest jazz album releases during the 2020 Covid-19 Lockdown

Foreword

Article on Jazz in the Native Yards

CD reviews by artists from Denmark, China, Ivory Coast, Korea and U.S, released in 2020