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The K Jazz Show on Kofifi FM 97.2

Award winning South African Radio Show, Sundays 10:00 to 13:00 SAST with Ngwako T. Malakalaka on Kofifi FM 97.2

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Weekly English South Africa Music · Music Interviews
128 Episodes
80 – 100

Introducing Aja Monet on Kofifi FM 97.2

Our guest this Sunday is a surrealist blues poet, storyteller, educator and organizer born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She is the youngest winner of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam poetry award and follows in the legacy and tradition of poets participating and assembling in social movements. Her first…
1 Oct 2023 55 min

Feature: The Cover Story with Dee Alexander

Our guest this Sunday is born on Chicago’s west side, Dee Alexander is one of the city's most gifted and respected vocalist/songwriters. Her talents span every music genre, from Gospel to R&B, Blues to Neo-Soul. Growing up in a household steeped in recordings of Dinah Washington; Ms. Alexander names Sarah…
24 Sep 2023 59 min

Swiss Harpist, Andreas Vollenweider talks the Joy of Jazz Festival on Kofifi FM 97.2

The Joy of Jazz Festival is fast approaching, takes place in Johannesburg on the 29th and 30th of September. The exciting line up this year features Andreas Vollenweider who is a Swiss harpist and is categorised as a new-age musician and uses a modified electroacoustic harp of his own design. He has worked with Bobby…
17 Sep 2023 15 min

Hour Africa Feature: Mpiwa Gwindi explores the Mbira on Kofifi FM 97.2

The mbira, also known as mbila sansa, kilembe, likembe, dipela or thumb piano is an ancient musical instrument closely associated with the natural landscape in which the Shona people of Zimbabwe come from  This morning we walk further along the trail of this uniquely African lamellophone and we are joined by Mpiwa Gwindi France based…
10 Sep 2023 31 min

Ropeadope's CEO Louis Marks on Kofifi FM 97.2

CEO Louis Marks began his career in a family owned business, gaining time, friends, and experience from the warehouse floor to the New York Stock Exchange. It was in 2005, at perhaps the lowest point in the recorded music business, Marks purchased Ropeadope and began a new phase. Ropeadope has…
3 Sep 2023 40 min

Sibusiso Mash Mashiloane talks "Izibongo" on Kofifi FM 97.2

Sibusiso Mash Mashiloane is a Durban-based, multi-award winning South African pianist and composer of remarkable skill and passion, he is hailed as an authority on South African music. And since 2016, has released an album a year, winning 6 awards and being nominated for 8 more, including the SAMAs, Urban Music,…
3 Sep 2023 58 min

Feature: The Cover Story with Warren Wolf on Kofifi FM 97.2

Our guest on the show this Sunday is an accomplished American jazz musician who under the tutelage of his father, Warren Wolf Sr., started music studies at the age of three, learning the vibraphone, marimba, drums, and piano.  Studied classical music at the Baltimore School for the Arts and later…
27 Aug 2023 52 min

Yayoi Ikawa talks the multi stop South African tour on Kofifi FM 97.2

Our guest this Sunday was Born in Tokyo, Japan, raised musically in New York and she is a pianist/composer. Yayoi Ikawa is an experience in ingenuity and compassion, using music as a powerful communicational tool, she strives to lift up humanity through understanding and encouraging herself and others. She was recently…
13 Aug 2023 33 min

Jordi Pujol celebrates 30 years of "Fresh Sound New Talent" on Kofifi FM 97.2

Our guest this sunday is Jordi Pujol he is the founder and executive producer from the jazz label Fresh Sound New Talent, a label that has had the privilege of recording some of the best contemporary jazz musicians. Renowned artists like Brad Mehldau, The Bad Plus, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Jeremy Pelt,…
30 Jul 2023 53 min

Introducing Kabelo Boy Mokhatla

Tembisa born New York based Kabelo Boy Mokhatla is a multi-talented artist, excelling as a drummer, composer, arranger, and performer. It is under the tutelage of Jazz Drummer, Composer and Bandleader Kendrick Scott, at the Manhattan School of Music, that Kabelo has been exposed to the various aspects and disciplines…
16 Jul 2023 42 min

Nhlanhla Ngqaqu & Khutjo Nkwana interpret Iphupho L'ka Biko on Kofifi FM 97.2

iPhupho L'ka Biko is a Johannesburg-based Pan Africanist band. The collective was formed in 2015 by bassist and composer Nhlanhla Ngqaqu. The members of the band met in Braamfontein, where they frequently interacted through school ensembles, jam sessions, and circular live music venues. The band although founded years earlier is…
2 Jul 2023 44 min

Titi Luzipo introduces her sophomore project " Freedom " on Kofifi FM 97.2

Vocalist Titi Luzipo who has become a household name in the jazz and afro soul circles of South Africa. A student of music specialising in Jazz Performance and has shared the stages and worked closely with local and international musicians such as Feya Faku, Gloria Bosman, Judith Sephuma, Tsepo Tsola,…
25 Jun 2023 34 min

Drummer Asher Gamedze, talks " Turbulence and Pulse" on Kofifi FM 97.2

Drummer Asher Gamedze explores relationships of time between music and history on his new album Turbulence and Pulse Following his critically-acclaimed debut album Dialectic Soul which was released at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in July 2020. Turbulence and Pulse takes its title from this moment of synchronicities. Inspired…
4 Jun 2023 39 min

Atlas Duma talks the Inaugural KwaZulu Jazz Festival on Kofifi FM 97.2

The City of eThekwini is preparing to host jazz enthusiasts that who will be attending the inaugural KZN International Jazz Festival at the Durban Station, on Saturday 3rd of June.   This highly anticipated event is organized by Sagiya Foundation in association with the KZN Jazz Appreciators Association. So this Sunday, we managed to…
28 May 2023 18 min

The K Jazz Show pays tribute to Musa Manzini

Celebrating a life that was indeed cut too short, Renowed and celebrated South African jazz musician Musa Manzini transitioned this past week and we stopped here this morning to remember and reflect on the life and times of this South African. We were joined in the conversation by Bassist Benjamin…
21 May 2023 54 min
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