The Kyle Shepherd Group in CONCERT

fineART Music supported by Fine Music Radio proudly presents

The Kyle Shepherd Group in CONCERT....modern South African Jazz!

The Kyle Shepherd Group, featuring Kyle Shepherd (piano), Buddy Wells (sax), Shane Cooper (double bass), Jonno Sweetman (drums), Lwanda Gogwana (trumpet) and Ethan Smith (sax) perform live at:

8pm on SATURDAY 30 MAY 2009 at the SABC AUDITORIUM, Beach Road, Sea Point, Cape Town

Tickets cost R80 (R60 - Students / Pensioners - proof required)

Bookings are Essential and can be made by emailing info@kyleshepherd.co.za or by calling 072 351 5204.

In the space of only a few years, Shepherd's rise in the Jazz world has been nothing short of meteoric. From the time he won the inaugural FMR/Pick ‘n Pay Travel Awards in 2005, to performances, local & abroad, with Jazz luminaries such as Errol Dyers, Robbie Jansen, Louis Moholo, Mccoy Mrubata, Zim Ngqawana & Hilton Schilder, through to the launch of his critically acclaimed Debut Album "fineART" in January 2009 and more recently, his appearance at the 2009 Cape Town International Jazz Festival, there's simply no stopping the heights that Shepherd, whom Andre Manuel (Cape Times) aptly describes as "one of the chief architects of modern Cape jazz.” will go to!

So what can audiences expect to hear at this concert? "With The Kyle Shepherd Group, a six-piece band with a strong rhythm and horn section, I have an opportunity to more harmonically, more creatively stretch my compositions way beyond their original shape & sound, and in so doing, push the boundaries of what I call modern South African Jazz. We'll be playing music from my Debut Album as well as some new material." Kyle Shepherd

"(his compositions) unashamedly display his cultural music traditions, drawing on the unique rhythms, harmonies, and melodic devices of what Kyle calls “music from home”. Carol Martin (SAJE - South African Association for Jazz Education).

"It’s this ‘Proudly South African’ tradition that audiences can expect to hear" ... "which sees the multi-instrumentalist navigate an impressionistic collage of South African jazz sounds, from slam poetic minimalist re-imaginings of Afrikaans volksliedjies and Muslim calls to prayer, to goema groove deconstructions, tributes to Abdullah Ibrahim, Ngqawana’s philosophy of “Zimology” and more that, as the doyen of South African jazz scribes Gwen Ansell pointed out in Business Day recently: “live in the jazz world but are never imprisoned by it”. Miles Keylock (Mail & Guardian)


The Debut CD "fineART" is on sale at most leading CD Stores in South Africa including Musica Mega Store, Look & Listen, Jive City, Just CD, The African Music Store.

http://www.kyleshepherd.co.za

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