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Exploring the fullness of who she is – who we are – in her personal and collaborative projects, Thandi Ntuli negotiates a wide palette of sound and genre.
This approach is a proud embracing of having grown up with the family lore of a classical singer aunt, after whom she is named; an uncle (Selby Ntuli) who was a member of Afro-rock band Harari; and a grandfather (Levi Godlib Ntuli) who – while living with his young family in s Sophiatown, a cultural hub not unlike s Harlem in New York – fostered among his children a tradition of composing, playing and singing music together.
This tradition still lives on.
Through her work over a hitherto year career, Thandi has carved space for herself, and others seeking home, to fully exist – thereby firmly situating herself and the contemporary South African generation in the musical cannon. Her frank-yet-empathetic and vulnerable gaze on herself, and the world, has birthed a body of work that facilitates our access to our histories, presents and futures by creating in music literature the existence of language, experiences and space that speak to us.
For young South Africans and creatives – not least of all, women – Thandi represents a home-going to ourselves, each other and our communities.
She comes to music in earnest, to listen to it, and to convey with all possible honesty what it has come to teach her. Receiving lessons from music without shame or judgement, Thandi’s practice has allowed her to see and hear herself more meaningfully.
In sharing this gift as intimately as she has, she has shared space with the rest of us to give voice and presence to ourselves more meaningfully.
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In so doing, we share the same space with others. After all, music is community. Music is community care. Thandi’s work is unapologetic ownership and celebration of all that we are.
Awards
Selected Achievements and Awards Winner of the “Standard Bank Young Artist Award” for Jazz.
Winner of “Arts and Culture Impact Award” Winner of "Arts and Culture Impact Award." Winner of "Mbokodo Award" for Women in Jazz.
Thandi ntuli biography of williams sisters Thandi Ntuli Live at Upcoming Shows. Ndlela Music Company Nichole Scott Ms.Nominated for a "Arts and Culture Impact Award." Album Nominated for "Metro FM Award" for Best Urban Jazz (The Offering) Nominated for a "Mbokodo Award" for Women in Jazz.
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Thandi Ntuli: Reclaiming The Rainbow
by Gareth Thompson
Thandi Ntuli is in her music room at home in Johannesburg.
It is late afternoon and sunlight bursts through narrow windows onto some boho chic furniture. Ntuli brushes a cloth over her laptop screen and comes into focus, beaming a smile of welcome, wearing a long orange dress. &#;I'm right in the city," she says.
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Thandi Ntuli, Frank Zappa, Jason Moran, Soweto Kinch & Other New Releases
by Ludovico Granvassu
Welcome to the first edition of Mondo Jazz of !
Judging by how the year started, it should be jazz a-plenty as we open with Jason Moran's latest project, released just hours after the new year started, dedicated to James Reese Europe. After that many recent compelling releases, from Thandi Ntuli to Frank Zappa (newly published archival material from the legendary Waka Jawaka and Grand Wazoo sessions).
Happy listening and happy new year! Playlist Ben Allison
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Shabaka And The Ancestors: We Are Sent Here by History
by Karl Ackermann
Even as Shabaka Hutchings moves the evolution of jazz forward, We Are Sent Here By History laments the present-day conditions of conflict, suffering, parity, and the struggle to survive.
Thandi ntuli biography of williams Order On vinyl, CD or digital. Robert C. Our weekly newsletter highlights our top stories, our special offers, and upcoming jazz events near you. John G.The saxophonist's breakthrough album came with his Sons of Kemet on Your Queen Is A Reptile (Impulse! Records, ). He also leads the jazz/electronica hybrid The Comet Is Coming. Shabaka and the Ancestors' debut, Wisdom of Elders (Brownswood Recordings, ) essentially featured the same group of South African musicians, but here
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by Serena Antinucci
Siamo stati spediti qui dalla Storia inconsapevoli di ciò che sarebbe accaduto.
Avevamo un compito, l'abbiamo disatteso. Avevamo uno scopo, l'abbiamo dimenticato. Abbiamo disimparato la lingua della natura, sopraffatti dal potere e dall'egemonia capitalista. Oggi siamo stati chiamati ad afferrare la mano degli spiriti antenati, che tentano di soccorrerci, indicandoci una nuova strada della creazione, originata dalla distruzione.
Questi spiriti non sono tornati per caso, è stata la musica a invocarli.
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Shabaka & the Ancestors: We Are Sent Here By History
by Chris May
Reed player Shabaka Hutchings became the first British musician to sign to the iconic (for once the word is justified) Impulse! label when his band Sons of Kemet did so in It was a deal for which his management could rightly be proud.
It was also an affirmation which Hutchings felt deeply, for in the s and s Impulse! had recorded many of his formative influences, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp and Pharoah Sanders among them. In Hutchings took
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Thandi Ntuli: On Exile
by Seton Hawkins
South African pianist, composer, and vocalist Thandi Ntuli entered not with a bang, but with a thermonuclear blast.
At the close of , she had been selected as the recipient of the Standard Bank Young Artist Award in Jazz, anointing her as the latest figure in an incredible lineage of South African Jazz artists to receive the honor. For any artist, that award alone would serve as a marker for a banner year. However, Ntuli also
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