Twosday jazz vibes at UKZN
Ntando Mbatha and Joel Karabo Elliott will be playing at the Centre for jazz and popular music.
THE Centre for Jazz and Popular Music proudly presents the next Twosday gig with JKE and the Roots Grown Deep featuring Madala Kunene on Tuesday 7 March at 6pm. Joel Karabo Elliott’s (JKE) music of Roots Grown Deep is an Amer-Afrikan musical, poetic and cultural movement seeking the most resonant harmonies of human diaspora.
It expresses a unique musical fusion of New Orleans jazz, southern African indigenous rhythm and dance, Jamaican reggae and Appalachia folk. The outcome is a passionate soul’s outcry of multiple languages, trances, and instrumental concepts, guided by a poetic message of conscious spiritual ascension.
For their 2017 KZN and Lesotho tour, Roots Grown Deep will perform as a quartet featuring Newcastle and Durban native Ntando Mbatha on bass, Sepedi and isiZulu praise poet Dennias Mashegwane, and percussionist Lantern Maleka. Both albums of the Grow Within musical novel will be available for sale at the concerts (R200 and R100 respectively).
The Centre for Jazz and Popular Music is at Level 2 Shepstone Building at UKZN Howard College Campus. Tickets will be available at the door on the night for R70 general admissions, R45 pensioners and R20 for students. Doors open at 5.30pm, the music starts at 6pm. Cash bar available.
For more on JKE as an artist and the ensemble’s vision, active projects and performance history, visit: www.rootsgrowndeep.com
