Paul Hanmer (born 1961, Cape Town) is a South African jazz pianist.
As a child he studied piano. He attended the University of Cape Town for two years before beginning a music career with guitarist Paul Petersen. [1] During the 1980s he started the band Unofficial Language with Peter Sklair and Ian Herman in Johannesburg. [1] In the 1990s he was a member of the Cool Friction Band led by Tony Cox. His debut album, Trains to Taung , was released by Sheer Sound in 1997. [1] Influenced by Keith Jarrett, [2] he has worked with Miriam Makeba, Louis Mhlanga, Pops Mohamed, McCoy Mrubata, Ray Phiri, and Tananas. [1] [2]
James Peter Giuffre was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, composer, and arranger. He is known for developing forms of jazz which allowed for free interplay between the musicians, anticipating forms of free improvisation.
Paul Gonsalves was an American jazz tenor saxophonist best known for his association with Duke Ellington. At the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival, Gonsalves played a 27-chorus solo in the middle of Ellington's "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue," a performance credited with revitalizing Ellington's waning career in the 1950s.
Christopher McGregor was a South African jazz pianist, bandleader and composer born in Somerset West, South Africa.
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Trains to Taung is the debut album by South African jazz pianist Paul Hanmer. The album combines jazz with African music.
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Cape jazz is a genre of jazz that is performed in the very southern part of Africa, the name being a reference to Cape Town, South Africa. Some writers say that Cape jazz began to emerge in 1959 with the formation of The Jazz Epistles, many of whom were from Cape Town, including Abdullah Ibrahim, then known as Dollar Brand. Cape jazz is similar to the popular music style known as marabi, though more improvisational in character. Where marabi is a piano jazz style, Cape jazz in the beginning featured instruments that can be carried in a street parade, such as brass instruments, banjos, guitars and percussion instruments.
South Africa has a notable jazz scene.
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McCoy Mrubata is a South African jazz saxophonist.
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This is a timeline documenting events of jazz in the year 1961.
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