Music

A journey of many years: Thandi Ntuli's sensational jazz album, 'Exiled'

Jazz pianist and vocalist Thandi Ntuli's music is on the move. Tseliso Monaheng goes along for the trip

15 April 2018 - 00:01 By Tseliso Monaheng

Thandi Ntuli is fresh off tour. She took her quartet to Mozambique and Swaziland, where they played well-received shows, made new friends who showed them new tricks, and returned with a gang of unsuitable-for-print stories.
There was also a Jozi stop-over at DJ Kenzhero's new spot in Braamfontein. Thandi, along with Benjamin Jephta and Sphelelo Mazibuko, on bass and drums respectively - and a horn section courtesy of the sax-trumpet-trombone collective H3 - are in Rebirth of Cool with grandaddy mcswank, Kenzhero.
A gig as the musical director during Simphiwe Dana's Cape Town International Jazz Festival headliner performances followed and, as of writing, Thandi was set to launch her sophomore album Exiled this month and play a gig with American musician Georgia Anne Muldrow.
WATCH | The making of Thandi Ntuli's album Exiled..

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