To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
The Rough Guide To Cape Jazz
World Music Network
4 stars
A VINYL set of Cape Town artists who provided the soundtrack of resistance to apartheid.
Featured are jazz/rockers Pacific Express and two of South Africa’s jazz icons sax players Basil “Manenberg” Coetzee and Robbie Jansen, who are represented here on the aptly named Liberation and Cape Joy.
Coetzee got his nickname “Manenberg” from the Abdullah Ibrahim composition named after the district for those forcibly removed from a white residential area during the apartheid regime.
New releases from The Dreaming Spires, Bruce Springsteen, and Chet Baker
WILL STONE applauds a comprehensive survey of love in its many moods and musical forms
Re-releases from Bobby Wellins/Kenny Wheeler Quintet, Larry Stabbins/Keith Tippet/Louis Moholo-Moholo, and Charles Mingus Quintet
New releases from Toby Hay, Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Dobson & The Hanging Stars


