Kyle Shepherd Trio In Concert - 1 August 2009

The Kyle Shepherd Trio, featuring South Africa's most revered young jazz musicians, namely, Kyle Shepherd (grand piano), Shane Cooper (double bass) & Jonno Sweetman (drums) perform live at WELGEMEEND (map below) on Sat 1 Aug 09 at 19:30.


Bookings essential! R80.00 (R60.00 Students & Pensioners: proof required).
To book seats online, click here

Kyle launched his Debut Album entitled "fineART" in Jan 09. The Trio will perform Kyle's original compositions from the album at the concert as well as some new material.

Kyle draws his musical influences from the traditional rhythms, melodies and harmonies of Cape Town, South Africa as well as Jazz music. Abdullah Ibrahim, Zim Ngqwana, Errol Dyers, Robbie Jansen, Keith Jarrett and Jason Moran all count amongst those who have inspired Shepherd musically, spiritually & creatively.

"His compositions are improvised approaches built on a local sound, rich in Cape traditions."
Atiyyah Khan, The Cape Argus

"As a composer and arranger Shepherd is proving to be one of the chief architects of modern Cape jazz."
Andre Manuel, The Cape Times

"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)

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