Philip Tabane: the African musical genius who played for the spirit
By: Gwen Ansell, University of Pretoria Philip Tabane. Oupa Nkosi/Mail & Guardian South African musician Philip Tabane, who died on 18 May 2018, hated being labelled. How he’d feel about the all official obituaries that confine him inside the jazz envelope is clear: The jazz label – or any other label – has never worked in my case. Once, I went to play at a competition in Durban and […]