RC 260823SAfmKitty Beedla
Sunday, 23 August 2026
A jazz-heavy Vinyl Corner dug into intimate South African and international recordings, while also saluting the Kazak Kamba Pan-African Theatre Festival and SAfm’s 90th birthday.
- 22:08
Opened with Timbi Dunjana’s tender ballad 'Langalang', written for her daughter while she was pregnant and released in 2024 on God Bless Igaba, God Bless Imzinzi.
- 22:21
Marked the Kazak Kamba Pan-African Theatre Festival’s third year at the Market Theatre, with the theme 'memory against forgetting' and a programme of theatre, music, workshops and colloquium.
- 23:09
Spun Dave Brubeck Quartet’s live 1963 Carnegie Hall version of 'St. Louis Blues' and 'Bossa Nova USA', framing both as examples of modern jazz reworking older and global rhythms.
- 23:33
Tracked Donald Byrd’s 'Fancy Free' as a transition record from hard bop to jazz-funk and fusion, highlighting Duke Pearson’s electric piano, Joe Chambers’ groove and Jimmy Ponder’s guitar.