Cape Town Data
The South African Music Graph
See who taught whom, who played what and where, on one map of South African music.
See how South African musicians, songs and places are connected. Every connection below is sourced, and every node leads to what we know about it.
The map grew out of our article An Interactive Network of Cape Jazz Musicians.
The network
3 nodes on the map.
Everyone and everything on the map
Artist
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Bokani Dyer
Pianist and composer born in Gaborone in 1986, the child of a South African exile family, who moved to South Africa as a child and studied jazz at the University of Cape Town, graduating in 2008. He won the Standard Bank Young Artist award for jazz in 2011 and plays in Shane Cooper's band Mabuta. His music runs from trio jazz to electronics.
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Kyle Shepherd
Cape Town pianist and film composer born in 1987, who started on violin and moved to piano at fifteen. He was mentored by Zim Ngqawana and trained partly around Abdullah Ibrahim's M7 school, where his mother taught, and he leads a trio with Shane Cooper and Jonno Sweetman. He won the Standard Bank Young Artist award for jazz in 2014 and scored Noem My Skollie.
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Shane Cooper
Bassist, composer and producer born in 1985, who moved to Cape Town to study jazz at UCT and now works between jazz and electronic music. He plays in the Kyle Shepherd Trio, leads the band Mabuta and records dance music as Card On Spokes. He was the Standard Bank Young Artist for jazz in 2013.
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Connections
- Shane Cooper worked with Bokani Dyer (2018). Mabuta Source: Shane Cooper: About
- Kyle Shepherd worked with Shane Cooper. Cooper plays bass in his trio Source: Kyle Shepherd: Biography