Mlungisi Gegana is an acoustic bassist, electric bass player, band leader, composer, music arranger, music producer and session musician. He is widely versed in South African music idioms and has collaborated with some of the finest jazz musicians in South Africa. Gegana’s combos have graced the stages of South Africa’s major jazz festivals and premier live music venues.
Mlu, as he is familiarly known, has performed with South African and international musicians on local and global stages including France, Norway, Algeria and Mozambique. The most memorable of these performances was with Zim Ngqawana at the North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands. As a session bass player, Mlu has been featured on the gospel, pop, and traditional music albums of his peers and a younger generation of music artists. He often experiments with cross-cultural, cross-genre and cross-generational music.
Originally from the historical jazz hub of Queenstown, in the Eastern Cape, Gegana is rooted in African jazz traditions, but his approach to music-making is refreshingly versatile owing to his formal and informal music training. Gegana is well-tuned to South African musical heritag
Bassist, composer and bandleader Mlungisi Gegana is setting Cape Town stages ablaze this April with new music performed with his newly minted ensemble, The Mlungisi Gegana Band. The tour will also focus on workshopping fresh works composed over a number of years with students from The Mlungisi Gegana Music Academy. KEANETSE MOKHOTHU rang him up to find out more about the man behind the music before he kicks off his mini tour.
I ask a with &#;a city where it began&#; in mind &#; what is your definition of South African jazz?
South African jazz has its own unique space in the jazz art form around the world. Most of our jazz musicians in the country are heavily influenced by our different cultures. If you go to Cape Town for an example, you can hear jazz music is influenced by goema.
In the Eastern Cape, you will hear more of umngqungqo (Rhythm) and umxhentso (Xhosa Dance), that has a big influence in South African jazz. We have a younger generation of jazz musicians that are collaborating with international musicians, where a new approach to jazz is being introduced to the world.
Which direction has the sound of our jazz as a country taken and why?
We are influenced
Titre : Découvrez Mlungisi Gegana, le bassiste talentueux d’Afrique du Sud
Introduction :
Lorsqu’il s’agit de musique qui parle directement aux gens, peu importe le temps que cela prend. C’est la philosophie du bassiste et compositeur sud-africain Mlungisi Gegana, qui vient de sortir son troisième album intitulé « My Time, My Space ». Après près de dix ans depuis son deuxième album en tant que leader, Gegana revient sur sa carrière qui s’étend sur quatre décennies et raconte son parcours musical marqué par des déplacements entre différents espaces de performance en Afrique du Sud.
Un parcours musical marqué par les déplacements :
Né à Queenstown, dans la province du Cap-Oriental, Gegana découvre sa passion pour la musique dès son plus jeune âge. À l’âge de 11 ans, il commence à expérimenter avec une guitare fabriquée à partir d’une boîte d’huile faite maison et se concentre alors sur la percussion. Mais c’est en , en aidant sa grand-mère dans son jardin, qu’il décide de se consacrer pleinement à la musique. Avec de la famille à Cape Town, il choisit de s’installer dans cette ville et y rencontre des musiciens
Mlungisi Gegana is a bass player, a band leader, music composer, music arranger, music producer, session musician and a mentor. He is widely versed in South African music idiom and has collaborated with some of the finest jazz musicians in South Africa and abroad. Gegana's combos have graced stages of South Africa's major jazz festivals and premier live music venues.
I have performed with South African and international musicians on local and global stages including Sweden, France, Norway, Algeria, Namibia, Mozambique, Lesotho, Zambia, Zimbabwe. The most memorable of all my performances was with ZimNgqawana at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Netherland and a saxophonist from an America leading jazz fusion band called Yellow Jackets by the name of Bob Mintzer at Sun City Super Bowl as a backing musician.
M.G has been featured on gospel, pop, African traditional music, contemporary and mainstream jazz albums as a session bass player. He often experiment with cross culture, cross-genre and cross generational music from the young and old, and he's rooted in African jazz tradition.
He is originally from the historical jazz hub of Queenstown in the Eastern Cape, which has produced s
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