Ma.gnolia: kwela's Bookmarks

Return of the Big Voice

2008-01-11T12:05:37-08:00

Pennywhistle master Big Voice Jack Lerole played on the streets of Alexandra township in the Fifties. Today he's a star in New York. Peter Makurube takes a cruise down memory lane

Sophiatown and South African Jazz: Re-appropriating a Cultural Identity

2007-04-28T09:38:12-07:00

"'African jazz' in Johannesburg developed as part of a tenuous effort to establish social institutions, and settings for the creation of community in a segregated context. For performers themselves there were both opportunities and dangers involved in playing the cultural broker – their mediating role in the ‘argument of images’ that defined black identities in the over-riding context of social conflict and accommodation, and their ambiguous relationship to their audience as they attempted to secure their status as professionals."

The Originals� by Arnold Rypens

2007-04-24T01:33:55-07:00

Some interesting details regarding Tom Hark by Elias & His Zigzag Jive Fluters

a Kwela recording

2007-04-16T14:21:23-07:00

Description of an original kwela single: "Pennywhistle Kwela", Columbia SEYJ 105. www.kwela.co.uk

BBC - Radio 3 World on Your Street - Musicians' Stories: Dave Woodhead(1)

2007-04-16T13:20:48-07:00

"Musician Dave Woodhead, penny-whistle, trumpet, coronet, tells his story." www.kwela.co.uk

Random Image for kwela

2007-04-16T12:21:46-07:00

"A random image for kwela, and a definition if applicable." www.kwela.co.uk

Return of the Big Voice - Zebra Crossing

2007-04-14T02:39:36-07:00

"Pennywhistle master Big Voice Jack Lerole played on the streets of Alexandra township in the Fifties. Today he's a star in New York. Peter Makurube takes a cruise down memory lane." www.kwela.co.uk

Finding Tom Hark - Zebra Crossing

2007-04-14T02:37:14-07:00

"I think I was nine or ten years old when I first heard 'Tom Hark', and of course I had no inkling of the journey that had begun. My recollection of the TV drama it introduced is non-existent; diamonds, South Africa, and apartheid weren't even on my radar. If I tell you it was called 'The Killing Stones' it is probably not a true memory because that information is on the record label -- a very worn '45' which is the only one I still have out of hundreds we played to death on our tinny little portables." www.kwela.co.uk

Kwela Jake

2007-04-14T02:33:10-07:00

"When he was only eight, Jake ran away from his home in Alexandra Township ("Dark City") north of Johannesburg. He took the six-holed tin pennywhistle he'd pestered his uncle to give him, and went to the city to play for white pennies on the street corners with other kids, dodging the police when they tried to catch him, sleeping at night in the backseat of a wrecked car on a disused lot." www.kwela.co.uk

Back to Alexandra

2007-04-14T02:02:38-07:00

"Don't miss this excellent documentary about Big Voice Jack, a well known pennywhistle player from Alexandra in Johannesburg who is invited to play in America with the hugely successful Dave Mathews Band."

Brother Jake

2007-04-06T11:34:33-07:00

"Aaron "Big Voice Jack" Lerole -- my brother Jake -- died on Wednesday morning, March 12, 2003."

James Armoed

2007-04-06T11:15:00-07:00

"James first heard pennywhistle players Spokes Mashiyani and Lemmy 'Special' Mabaso on the old 78's in the Transkei."

African penny whistle tunes - do they exist?

2007-04-06T10:59:44-07:00

An interesting discussion thread from 2005

Morris Goldberg

2007-04-06T10:55:49-07:00

"NEW YORK based saxophonist, flautist, penny whistler and bandleader Morris Goldberg grew up in Observatory, Cape Town, and nurtured musical roots which span classical music, jazz, bebop, and mbaqanga."

New Sounds Of Africa - Fiesta FLP1358

2007-04-06T10:49:19-07:00

"1959 All tracks features Spokes Mashiyane on vocals and sometimes saxophone."

Morris Goldberg

2007-04-06T10:47:13-07:00

The whistler on Paul Simon's "You Can Call Me Al"

Spokes Mashiyane

2007-04-06T10:32:48-07:00

"Spokes Mashiyane was the most famous pennywhistle player of the South African kwela music era."

Music and Culture as an Act of Resistance

2007-03-30T07:30:22-07:00

" Music was a central feature of the urban culture that developed in Johannesburg, and in Sophiatown in particular. It was here that the most important developments in indigenous jazz took place."

Tswaranang (Unite)

2007-03-30T06:59:48-07:00

"Tswaranang (Unite), the Buskaid Ensemble's collection of its own magical Kwela arrangements - including a number of stunning vocal solos - was recorded at the Snape Maltings in July 2002."

6 faces of Dr Kwela

2007-03-30T06:37:45-07:00

Openrecord (scathing) review of this album by Kwela Tebza

A musical Tour through Soweto

2007-03-30T06:25:06-07:00

"Presented by www.soweto.co.za in the 10 th Year of Democracy in South Africa as a tribute to and a celebration of the people of Soweto, their culture, diversity and of course the music."

Killer kwela

2007-03-30T06:22:45-07:00

"Friday marks the launch of Mafikizolo’s new album, Kwela, at a Durban club, ahead of the Metro FM Music Awards on Saturday November 15. The new album is twice as good as their previous album, Sibongile, writes Joe Makhafola"

Kwela, Gumboots and all that Jazz

2007-03-30T06:18:44-07:00

A commercial tour in Soweto that incorporates street theatre and music - it looks a lot of fun!

The Pennywhistle

2007-03-30T06:09:34-07:00

Audio clips from a commercial CD

UntitledThe Pennywhistlers

2007-03-20T04:28:18-07:00

Kwela

2007-03-20T04:24:42-07:00

John Coltrane | The Penny Whistle Tapes

2007-03-20T04:20:38-07:00

Music of South Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2007-03-20T04:15:29-07:00

Tin whistle

2007-03-20T04:14:22-07:00

art.co.za - art in Sourh Africa

2007-03-05T14:36:41-08:00