Darius Brubeck "Playing the Changes" on Kofifi FM 97.2

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Our guest is a jazz pianist, composer and author who introduced the first university jazz course in Africa in 1984 and established the internationally famous Centre for Jazz & Popular Music on the Durban campus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Throughout this time he toured internationally leading professional and student groups and playing with some of South Africa’s top musicians.
Together with his wife, Catherine they wrote a memoir, about their 23 years in South Africa.

“Playing the changes” which is also a documentary, examines why and how jazz had such a transformative role in different societies such as (post-)Soviet Poland and Mandela’s South Africa

The documentary is coming to our shores and you and I get the front row seat.
19 May 2024 English South Africa Music · Music Interviews

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