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Seton Hawkins
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Director of Public Programs at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Host of South African Jazz on SiriusXM Real Jazz. Adjunct faculty at Juilliard. Curator of AfricArise record series.

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This set at Dizzy's by Thembi Dunjana earlier this year was a serious highlight for me in 2025. Really happy to see some of it getting posted! Beautiful performance by an exceptional #SouthAfricanJazz artist

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"Peresina" by McCoy Tyner- Thembi Dunjana Quintet Live at Dizzy's 25.02.2025
YouTube video by Thembi Dunjana
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November 3, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Explore South African jazz albums that are undeniable pinnacles of the style: https://disc.gs/4qxJTKv
The Heshoo Beshoo Group - Armitage Road (1970) Winston Ngozi - Yakhal Inkomo (1968) Ibrahim Khalil Shihab Quartet - Spring (1969) Philip Tabane - The Indigenous Afro-Jazz Sounds Of Philip Tabane And His Malombo Jazzman (1969)
October 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Multipolar by Steve Dyer is now available for your listening enjoyment: ropeadope.com/news/2025/9/...

#newmusic #listen #music #artist #musician #SupportMusic #supportmusicians #ropeadope #release #newrelease #releaseday #NewMusicAlert #Stevedyer #Multipolar
September 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
setonhawkins.bsky.social
We've got some magical stuff going for you right now in #SouthAfricanJazz on SiriusXM's Real Jazz channel
Bheki Mseleku
October 19, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Our second week of music curated by Nduduzo Makhathini will run on SiriusXM Real Jazz's #SouthAfricanJazz show this Sunday at 7 pm ET and Monday at 5 pm ET.

Nduduzo picked selections of his music and of Bheki Mseleku's in advance of his hows at @jazzdotorg.bsky.social

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Nduduzo Makhathini and the Music of Bheki MselekuThe JLCO with Wynton Marsalis
Take a musical journey through South African jazz with visionary pianist Nduduzo Makhathini. This dynamic concert finds the JLCO with Wynton Marsalis channeling the iconic sounds of multi-instrumental...
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October 17, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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Pianist Nduduzo Makhathini comes to Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Theater Oct. 24-25 for two special concerts with the JLCO & Wynton Marsalis that will journey through South African jazz with performances of works by Bheki Mseleku & Makhathini. Tickets: jazz.org/nduduzo
October 2, 2025 at 2:43 PM
setonhawkins.bsky.social
On Friday I brought my Abdullah Ibrahim CDs to work and we got a nerdy and enthusiastic in advance of his concerts.

On Wednesday, Aaron Rimbui and I will kick off a six-week course on Abdullah's and Bheki Mseleku's music for Swing University. Hope to see you there!

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October 6, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Learned about MTM through Seton Hawkins' South African Jazz show on SXM a few years back and picked it up. It's still within arm's reach of my stereo. The title track sounds like the soundtrack to the coolest video game set in a warm climate. Every time I hear it, my soul smiles.
September 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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In The Short Fuse Podcast, host Elizabeth Howard talks with @setonhawkins.bsky.social, the Director of Public Programs and Educational Resources at Jazz at Lincoln Center, about Jazz at @lincolncenter.bsky.social Orchestra’s “Mother Africa” season.

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September 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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RIP Hermeto Pascoal (1936-2025)

📸 Jeff Caltabiano, Brooklyn, NY, 5.25.23
September 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM
setonhawkins.bsky.social
Next week in #SouthAfricanJazz on SiriusXM Real Jazz we'll hear music from Bheki Mseleku and from Tlokwe Sehume. We'll also dive into award recipients from this year's Mzantsi Jazz Awards, w/ tracks from Thembi Dunjana, Adam Glasser, Themba Mkhize, Ncesh Nonxishi, Sydney Mavundla, and Gabi Motuba.
September 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Emotional hearing #SouthAfricanJazz show this evening: our 200th. We started in Jan 2020 at SiriusXM studios before doing it at home (on a Blue Yeti) when COVID hit. Since then my microphone got better, my speaking didn't, but the music stayed magnificent. Playlist: www.cityofgoldarts.org/siriusxm
September 1, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Pianist and composer Bokani Dyer grew up among South African exiles in Botswana, and has become a leading jazz artist from the region. I caught his trio the other night in Philly; I reckon this is the only proper review from his North American tour.
African Piano Suite
Digging in with the Bokani Dyer Trio
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August 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
setonhawkins.bsky.social
Next week in #SouthAfricanJazz on SiriusXM Real Jazz we air the our 200th episode!

We'll hear from Glen Mafoko, Estelle Kokot, Xixel Langa, Frank Paco, Andile Q, Mike Laatz, Phinda, Nishlyn Ramanna, Benguela, GTX Xaba, and Oupa Makhubela

Sunday at 7 pm ET, Monday at 5 pm ET on Channel 67.
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August 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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The world is worse off now without Eddie in it.
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Life, by Eddie Palmieri
from the album Sabiduría
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August 7, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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"Why would I want to read something nobody could be bothered to write?"
August 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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i have been shouting about this for literal years!!! listings are so important
gabrielkahane.bsky.social Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · Jul 27
In my debut for @theatlantic.com, I wrote about the disappearance of cultural listings from major New York media outlets, and what it portends for artists, audiences, institutions, and journalists. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Why No One Knows What’s Happening Tonight
A love letter to music listings
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July 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
setonhawkins.bsky.social
Can't wait for Sisonke Xonti to make his United States debut next week! Come to Dizzy's if you get a chance. #SouthAfricanJazz
July 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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This month marks the centennial of Kippie Moeketsi. To the extent that ANYONE can claim the mantle as the godfather of South Africa's Jazz scene, that honor would go to Kippie. So much beautiful music, but this 1971 duet with Abdullah Ibrahim will always hold my heart www.youtube.com/watch?v=xku-...
Dollar Brand "Memories of You"
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July 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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This week in #SouthAfricanJazz on SiriusXM Real Jazz we paid tribute to the songbook of Abdullah Ibrahim through recordings of his music as performed by Pharoah Sanders, Zim Ngqawana, Anat Cohen, Chris McGregor, and many more. Full playlist here: southafricanjazz.org
SiriusXM Show — City of Gold Arts
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July 14, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.

Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
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There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc. There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation. There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely. Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual. As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence. So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone. Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism. No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get: The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.
July 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
setonhawkins.bsky.social
This week in #SouthAfricanJazz on SiriusXM's Real Jazz we heard new music from Sibusiso Mashiloane, Penelope Radsma, Billy Monama, and more. We also checked out a fifty-year-old never-before-released Kippie Moeketsi masterwork. I hope you enjoyed. Full playlist at southafricanjazz.org
July 6, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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I wasn't familiar with Avin Ahmadi, but I love this beautiful performance. youtu.be/nOkOn2l6fns?...
Avin Ahmadi plays Iranian Piece 'Gar Tīgh Bārad' by Siamak Aghaei on the Oud
YouTube video by SiccasGuitars
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July 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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AI in the wild? This tray tissue I was given at a restaurant is full of errors and hallucinations…!
a tissue on a tray with a bunch of pictures and phrases and about food. but it seemingly contains a bunch of errors and nonsense: “Doltclous” “A full suamsh makes for you a happy heram” “bood food is bood mood”
June 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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This week in #SouthAfricanJazz on SiriusXM Real Jazz we paid tribute to the lives and music of Feya Faku and Louis Moholo-Moholo, with a mix of their respective solo projects and albums that featured them as sidemen and collaborators. Playlist here: southafricanjazz.org
SiriusXM Show — City of Gold Arts
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July 1, 2025 at 1:42 AM