Estate Living Digital Publication Issue 4 April 2015 | Page 63

Roy Butler, Teddy Weatherford and Rudy
Jackson touring the country in order to
avoid the racial discrimination they faced
back home. Today, subtle undertones of
jazz are often imbedded in the sounds
of India’s loud and proud Hindi film and
music industry, and an active jazz scene
exists in major cities like Mumbai, Delhi
and Goa. John Mayer and Joe Harriot’s
quirky blend of sitar and saxophone here
perfectly merges the distinctive musical
styles of each side.

South African Jazz
Maestro
Despite being the son of jazz legend, Dave
Brubeck, Californian-born Darius Brubeck
has successfully carved out a fascinating
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jazz studies, the American jazz keyboardist
spent a number of years in Durban as
a professor and head of the Centre for
Jazz and Popular Music at the University
of Natal. He has produced a number of
albums, toured extensively and created
Afro Jazz
music scores for all types of ensembles,
large and small. His Afro Cool Concept,
South African-born Afrika Mkhize won the a band with South Africa’s premier alto
2012 Standard Bank Young Artist award saxophonist, Barney Rachabane, toured
for jazz. Along with fellow South African, all over southern Africa and overseas, and
Ayanda Sikade, and Swiss-born Bänz his most current band, Darius Brubeck
Oester and Ganesh Geymeier, they form Quartet, is making waves in all three
Banz Oester and the Rainmakers – a new places that he calls home – London, South
and exciting band making waves across Africa an