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13th SAJE Jazz Conference
​31 March - 2 April 2016

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The Conference will be hosted by Wits Music @ The Wits School of Arts, the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. 
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Performances at The ORBIT and Wits Great Hall.

The SAJE Jazz Conference is a biennial event focusing on jazz research, education, performance, improvisation, composition, discussion, skills and audience development. It is the only conference of its kind in Africa and offers a unique forum for musicians, academics, educators, students, jazz fans, and those in the media and arts, to engage with the latest sounds and ideas in jazz. Along with paper presentations, workshops, performances and jam sessions, there are opportunities for discussion, networking, information exchange, and professional development.

The 13th SAJE Jazz Conference is funded by the SAMRO Foundation, National Lottery Commission, Business and Arts SA (BASA), Pro-Helvetia, Italian Institute for Culture, and Tom's Music
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Counting Down To

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31 March - Day One

WITS MUSIC, 8th floor, University Corner, Jorissen and Jan Smuts Ave

9.00am to 9.30am   
Registration

9.30am - 10.00am  Paper
Mignon van Vreden 
(North West University)

Bejazzled: Jazz music to enhance early childhood education   

10.10am – 10.55am
Amy Campbell (UCT) – vocals
Andrew Lilley (UCT) - piano

The Art Of The Duo: A Concentration On Piano/Vocal Duet Performance

11.00am – 12.00am
Susanna Stivali
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(Pescara Conservatory, Italy)
IMPROVOICES WORKOUT
Vocal workshop - all welcome

12.10pm – 12.40pm   Paper
John Edwards (NMMU) – piano

TINTINYANA: A merger of Blues Form and the Marabi Progression

12h45-13h30: LUNCH

1.30pm - 2.15pm      lecture/workshop
Dejan Terzic - drums
(University of the Arts, Bern, Switzerland)
European Jazz and Eastern European Folkmusic and its influence on Contemporary Jazz today

2.20pm – 2.50pm  Paper
Guilherme Ribeiro (Souza Lima Conservatory, Sao Paolo, Brazil)

The use of odd meters through timelines (claves) as musical composition process

2.55pm – 3.40pm
Nomfundo Xaluva (SA) - vocals
From.Now.On: The acknowledgment of identity through music
performance/workshop

3.45pm – 4.30pm     

WITS Jazz Ensemble
performance


4.30pm – 5.30pm  Discussion
Led by Brenda Sisane/Motsumi Makhene

Topic: The centrality of Jazz Education in the revitalisation of the South African Jazz ​​heritage and future creative content through live circuits, multimedia and ​​​research oriented curriculum

DINNER /free time  
5.30pm-8.30pm


8.30pm: The ORBIT
Jazz without Borders
SAJE International Quartet 
Mike Rossi (SA/USA) - saxophones
Susanna Stivali (Italy) - voice
Guilherme Ribeiro (Brazil) - accordion
Carlo Mombelli (SA) - bass
Carlo Mombelli Quartet (SA)
Carlo Mombelli, Kyle Shepherd
Tumi Mogorosi and Mbuso Khosa
Dejan Terzic Trio
Kyle Shepherd - piano
Carlo Mombelli - bass
​Dejan Terzic - drums
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1 April - Day Two

WITS MUSIC, 8th floor, University Corner, Jorissen and Jan Smuts Ave

9.00am to 9.30am    
Registration

9.30am - 10.00am  Paper
Phuti Sepuru
​(University of Pretoria)
The acquisition of jazz improvisation skills: collective case studies with six South African jazz musicians 


10.05am – 10.55am  Performance
Neil Gonsalves (UKZN)- piano
Mageshen Naidoo (UP) – guitar
Home and Away - a colourful musical journey from our roots in Durban around the world

11.00am – 12.00am
Carlo Mombelli (WITS) - bass
lecture/wokshop

Using nature and sound design in the teaching of improvisation and composition

12.10am – 12.40pm  Paper
Melissa van der Spuy
(UCT doctoral candidate)

The Mechanics of Creativity - A qualitative investigation

12h45-13h30: LUNCH

1.30pm – 2.15pm
Jonathan Crossley (WITS)  
Andeline do Santos (Univ of Pretoria)
Twiddling the knobs, or tweaking your trumpet: expanding improvisational pedagogy to embrace organological adaption
Lecture/workshop

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2.15pm – 3.00pm
SAJE AGM
Minutes
Vote for new board

3.00pm – 4.00pm 
The SA Arts sector and Jazz – whereto from here? the future of live music venues, arts funding, jazz radio…
DISCUSSION panel

 
4.15pm – 5.00pm  
Guilherme Ribeiro (Brazil)
Samba Jazz

 
5.00pm – 5.45pm 
Jazz without Borders
Amanda Tiffin
- vocals (SA) and
Dave Ledbetter - guitar (SA)
Deborah Tanguy - vocals (France)
   Performance/workshop  


DINNER /free time  
5.30pm-8.30pm


8.30pm: The ORBIT
Mario Rom’s INTERZONE
​(Austria)
Mario Rom - trumpet
Lukas Kranzelbinder - bass
Herbert Pirker - drums


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2 April - Day Three

WITS MUSIC, 8th floor, University Corner, Jorissen and Jan Smuts Ave

9.00am to 9.30am    
Registration

9.30am - 10.00am  Paper
Moreira Chonguica (Mozambique)
The Economics of Jazz in South and Southern Africa

10.10am – 10.55am
Andre Petersen (WITS) - piano

Reflections on South African Piano: Abdullah Ibrahim, Bheki Mseleku, Chris McGregor, Moses Molelekwa and more.
 
11.00am – 12.00am
Artvark Saxophone Quartet
(Netherlands)
Performance/workshop

12.10am – 12.40pm  Paper
Mike Rossi  (UCT) - woodwinds

Beyond the Saxophone: Doubling
​without Borders

 
12h45-13h30: LUNCH

1.30pm - 2.00pm
Mike Campbell (UCT)
Composing and arranging for large ensemble in the South African context

2.00pm – 2.45pm
Dave Reynolds & ....  (SA)
Unusual & Intimate ... the future of Jazz
in Africa
   
    

2.50pm – 3.50pm
performance/workshop
Nduduzo Makhathini & band
(Fort Hare)
Listening To The Ground Project:
Healing Through Sound – 
connections between our African Cultures 
and the spontaneous improvisation in 
jazz


3.55pm – 4.25pm   paper
Tumi Mogorosi (SA) - drums
Interrogation of the notion of the classroom,
​a critique on the methodology of the institutionalized notions of knowledge production and validation


4.30pm – 5.15pm   
Lukas Kranzelbinder - Austria
(Mario Rom's Interzone)

Ideas on how to start and promote your band as a young jazz musician today ​    


DINNER /free time  
5.15pm-8.00pm



8.00pm:  Wits Great Hall
Artvark Saxophone Quartet (Netherlands)
Rolf Delfos - Alto Saxophone
Bart Wirtz - Alto Saxophone
Mete Erker - Tenor Saxophone
Peter Broekhuizen - Baritone Saxophone

Lindiwe Maxolo Quintet (SA)
Lindiwe Maxolo - voice,
Sthembiso Bhengu - Trumpet, 

Jacob Thomo - Piano, 
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Thembinkosi Mavimbela - Double Bass, and Ndumiso Madonsela- Drums



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