Kelebogile

These times are the best times of my life

[Kelebogile @JimmySmithStan]

@capemanchris @Enghumbhini @Almostconvinced @chrisvick3 @nothembaujx @JCharlesLeonard @thamintuli @marangdream @LolaMonareng @noelndhlovu10 @ShareenSingh8 Jammer🤣😭

[Chris Snelling. @capemanchris]

@JimmySmithStan @Enghumbhini @Almostconvinced @chrisvick3 @nothembaujx @JCharlesLeonard @thamintuli @marangdream @LolaMonareng @noelndhlovu10 @ShareenSingh8 You keep on getting the order mixed wena. Whiskey made me Dizzy. Brandy a champion.

[Mbhazima Shilowa @Enghumbhini]

@JimmySmithStan @capemanchris @Almostconvinced @chrisvick3 @nothembaujx @JCharlesLeonard @thamintuli @marangdream @LolaMonareng @noelndhlovu10 @ShareenSingh8 Same way he deals with the roots of jazz. Illuminating. I think the discussions with MM will be lit

[Mbhazima Shilowa @Enghumbhini]

@JimmySmithStan @capemanchris @Almostconvinced @chrisvick3 @nothembaujx @JCharlesLeonard @thamintuli @marangdream @LolaMonareng @noelndhlovu10 @ShareenSingh8 No need. In a documentary, Abdullah even plays marabi sounds explaining that they’re originating from Marabastad. I have you covered.

[Lester Kiewit @lesterkk]

In 2024 spent a day with AI. From interview to sound check to backstage. From frustrating whats-the-point esoteric conversations, to ill tempered and commanding in sound check (he demanded a PR person leave) to a frail rambling of a tired old man backstage after a 2 hour set.

[Lester Kiewit @lesterkk]

Mahalia Jackson sang Come Sunday at Duke Ellington's Sacred Concert series.
AI had a small organising role at the New York concert as part of Ellingtons crew.

https://t.co/Hk8ucr7vlD

[Lester Kiewit @lesterkk]

Since about then I had a private but arms length relationship with AI. When I hosted a night time show on Cape Talk he'd listen from Munich Germany and call in. "AI, Munich" he'd sign off. Over a period on Sunday mornings he'd text. "Come Sunday, Mahalia Jackson"

[Lester Kiewit @lesterkk]

But musically, Dollar was perfect. A 2016 surprise pop-up concert in the Cape Town
CBD was bliss. Construction stopped. The wind died. Office work halted. And people left their buildings to listen while AI held church.

[Lester Kiewit @lesterkk]

Adolf Brand's father died when he was 4. “It is not me. My name is Sentso; my father is
MoSotho.” It was his grandmother, he went on, “who gave me this
identity, so that I could have an easier passage [in life]," he told me.

[Lester Kiewit @lesterkk]

I know enough around the mind impact of a lack of identity, the impact of apartheid, a life in exile. How a mental state results in partners, children, friends become victims. For ones hero to be less than perfect. Patriarchy must never excused. But musically Dollar was perfect.

[Lester Kiewit @lesterkk]

Abdullah Ibrahim was a difficult man to interview. He spoke in parable. In metaphor. In metaphysics. You could not pin him down. I later found he was a very difficult. Period. The first time I bumped into him walking anonymously on Plein street circa 2003 he literally growled.

[DME 🇳🇦 @dme_363]

How did FIFA allow two African teams to face each other during the group stage of the World Cup?

[Kelebogile @JimmySmithStan]

@Enghumbhini @capemanchris @Almostconvinced @chrisvick3 @nothembaujx @JCharlesLeonard @thamintuli @marangdream @LolaMonareng @noelndhlovu10 @ShareenSingh8 The brandy and whisky🤣🤭

[Mbhazima Shilowa @Enghumbhini]

@capemanchris @JimmySmithStan @Almostconvinced @chrisvick3 @nothembaujx @JCharlesLeonard @thamintuli @marangdream @LolaMonareng @noelndhlovu10 @ShareenSingh8 We know that you in the league of Gillespie and Dupree

[Kelebogile @JimmySmithStan]

@capemanchris @Almostconvinced @Enghumbhini @chrisvick3 @nothembaujx @JCharlesLeonard @thamintuli @marangdream @LolaMonareng @noelndhlovu10 @ShareenSingh8 We won’t be baited. MM is not here to help us

[Mbhazima Shilowa @Enghumbhini]

June 16 kickstart. This classic by Abdullah fits the bill. He heard the cry of the students of Soweto and felt the grief of the parents and the nation, and responded the best way he knew how: through an upbeat, uptempo beat https://t.co/jVJAJUXcgw

[Kelebogile @JimmySmithStan]

@Almostconvinced @Enghumbhini @chrisvick3 @nothembaujx @JCharlesLeonard @thamintuli @marangdream @LolaMonareng @capemanchris @noelndhlovu10 @ShareenSingh8 Me too

[Michael Benjamin (on the music midnight makes) @Almostconvinced]

@Enghumbhini @JimmySmithStan @chrisvick3 @nothembaujx @JCharlesLeonard @thamintuli @marangdream @LolaMonareng @capemanchris @noelndhlovu10 @ShareenSingh8 Those were moments in Twitter before X that sparkled with music and mistaken identity and debates about where the capital of SA jazz was

[Michael Benjamin (on the music midnight makes) @Almostconvinced]

I love this pic. A backlit Abdullah. Boston, US, 1986.
From the Rashid Lombard JAZZ ROCKS publication from @CTJazzFest
@JimmySmithStan's tweet on law, jazz & wine took me here, @Motloduwa

[Kelebogile @JimmySmithStan]

@Enghumbhini @chrisvick3 @nothembaujx @JCharlesLeonard @thamintuli @marangdream @LolaMonareng @capemanchris @Almostconvinced @noelndhlovu10 @ShareenSingh8 🤣🤣🤣 Ska thoma