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SAJE presents #SouthAfricanJazzStories
An online jazz video project during lockdown Stories come and go but some hang around - influencing, teaching, inspiring and enlightening. We released our first #jazzstory on our SAJE Youtube Channel and other social media platforms on 1 September. Here is the link to our youtube channel. Please SUBSCRIBE - thanks. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqzfy6QefW7ypvGFHkGDnFw?view_as=subscriber |
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Episode 1: South African Jazz Stories
"Expressions - Jazz Photographer" Featuring South African photographer and visual storyteller Siphiwe Mlhambi Episode 2: South African Jazz Stories "Creative Drumming despite lockdown" Featuring South African drummer Jonno Sweetman |
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Episode 3: South African Jazz Stories "A brief history of Tananas" Featuring South African guitarist Steve Newman Episode 4: South African Jazz Stories "Africa my Home" - featuring South African vocalist/songwriter Natalie Rungan |
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Welcome to the SAJE home page!
The mission of the South African Association for Jazz Education is:
- to assure the growth of jazz in South Africa and the development of jazz and jazz education in urban and rural areas,
- to build the jazz arts community by advancing education and research,
- to promote skills development and performance,
- to develop new audiences,
- to document, preserve and archive our South African jazz heritage.
- The 15th SAJE Jazz Conference: 20-22 August 2020
It will now take place in August 2021 at the University of Pretoria, TUT and UNISA.
SBJOJ22 - Jazz Honours 2019
Special Awards evening at the Sandton Sun Convention Centre, Johannesburg, Saturday 24 August 2019
A special awards evening was held in Johannesburg by the Standard Bank Joy of Jazz Festival in conjunction with MNS Attorneys to acknowledge and celebrate those who have contributed to the South African Arts and Culture sector. Among those who received awards that evening were Mike Rossi and Diane Rossi for their contribution to Jazz Education over the past 30 plus years.
Special Awards evening at the Sandton Sun Convention Centre, Johannesburg, Saturday 24 August 2019
A special awards evening was held in Johannesburg by the Standard Bank Joy of Jazz Festival in conjunction with MNS Attorneys to acknowledge and celebrate those who have contributed to the South African Arts and Culture sector. Among those who received awards that evening were Mike Rossi and Diane Rossi for their contribution to Jazz Education over the past 30 plus years.
Mike Rossi (SAJE Board member and past President) Diane Rossi (SAJE) and Peter Tladi (T-musicman) Article in THE STAR newspaper
