It’s a Tuesday morning around 11:00, first Tuesday after the most-talked about fashion event (SA Fashion Week) South Africa has ever seen. I’m told it was a great success, seven years after its inception. Themba of the clothing label Darkie has given me directions to his studio. I have never seen him in the flesh and I’m waiting in anticipation near the premises. I give him a call and he tells me exatcly where he is, and I see him... 

Jazz music has always been seen as a genre of music only enjoyed by the more mature crowd. It came as a surprise for me, well maybe a little disillusion on my part for thinking I wasn’t a grown up, when I fell in love with this beautiful form of expression just a few years ago. I learnt to undertsnad that it’s all about how you interpret what you hear when you listen to any type of music. Jazz in this country has been enjoying an ernomous...