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Seeing the music, feeling the love: Reflecting on Siphiwe Mhlambi’s new pictorial collection
As the Joy of Jazz fFestival celebrated 25 years, its official chronicler, Siphiwe Mhlambi, launcheds his much-awaited of his pictorial book ‘Rhythms in Black & White: A Visual Journey Through the World of Jazz’. Bongani Madondo listens on to the lyrical compositions in his work
29 September 2024 - 00:00
Everyone loves the swing-time allure of jazz, yet many are intimidated by its self- perpetuated mythologies and aura of connoisseurship. Siphiwe Mhlambi should not be its star visual chronicler right now. He’s too ubiquitous, too “fly”, too accessible. Yet therein lies his genius. One hopes that those with eyes to see and not just look might have espied Mhlambi’s ubiquitous jazz photography by now. It has practically erased his wider body of work of the past 30 years...
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