Jonas Gwangwa embodied South Africa’s struggle for a national culture by Gwen Ansell
… player, producer and composer. Yet he chose to step away from mainstream success for ten years, leading the Amandla … There was music in the family, lessons at school, and from American jazzmen on the bioscope screen at the Odin Cinema in Sophiatown. From Dizzy Gillespie, the schoolboy Gwangwa borrowed his …