RC 260830SAfmKitty Beedla
Sunday, 30 August 2026
Kitty Beedla’s episode centred on close listening, pairing contemporary South African jazz and art with landmark hard-bop and intimate vocal-jazz vinyl selections.
- 22:25
The BMW Art Generation exhibition “From Whose Waters We Drink” explored memory, ancestry and shared futures through art, talks and performances, including contributions from Tando Zide and Nduduzo Makhathini.
- 22:08
Steve Dyer’s “Madupi” from 2024’s Multipolar was highlighted for its drumless trio arrangement, with Dyer on flute, Shane Cooper on upright bass and Nduduzo Gobedi on piano.
- 23:14
Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers album Moanin’, released in 1958, brought together Blakey, Lee Morgan, Benny Golson, Bobby Timmons and Jymie Merritt in a landmark Blue Note hard-bop recording.
- 23:30
The programme traced Etta Jones’s relationship with Billie Holiday’s “Fine and Mellow”, which Jones recorded on Don’t Go to Strangers in 1960 and revisited on later releases.
- 23:47
Jones’s 1963 recording of “It’s Magic” transformed a familiar popular standard into intimate jazz, supported by piano, organ, guitar, bass and drums rather than orchestral backing.