Soweto Kinch – Jazz, Rhymes and Life

Kevin Le Gendre speaks to the altoist/rapper, as well as Matana Roberts and Orrin Evans who both have a relationship with jazz and theatre, and traces the legacy of drama and jazz and how it’s bringing a new topical dimension to the music – beyond the notes

By and large, the music industry breaks much more than it makes. Exploitation of talent by unscrupulous record companies has materialised in acts as immoral as junkie horn players being paid in controlled substances or contracts not worth the paper they are written on being thrust on callow youth who need the right advice, not the wrong handler. To hear of musicians having to claw back their own masters is to see integrity placed on the chopping board of cynicism.

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