Kippie Moeketsi

Artist 1925–1983

Alto saxophonist, born in 1925, who started on clarinet in a band called the Band in Blue and became the leading saxophone voice of the bebop generation. He called the Jazz Epistles the best band he ever played in. Wikipedia records the epithet South Africa's Charlie Parker without saying who coined it. He died in 1983.

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is associated with

Kippies the Newtown jazz club named after him

was born in

Johannesburg (1925)

was a member of

Jazz Epistles (1959) alto saxophone

taught

Abdullah Ibrahim Moeketsi's own claim, and Ibrahim credits him with Monk
Jonas Gwangwa SAHO says Gwangwa was mentored by him

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