New York City

Place

Where several of these musicians lived out their exile. Abdullah Ibrahim was there from the mid 1960s, playing alongside Coltrane, Coleman and Cherry, and it was in New York, Morris Goldberg said, that the two of them slowly became aware of what they had at home.

Connections

was home to

counts among its students

  • Hugh Masekela (1960) the Manhattan School of Music, after the Guildhall in London

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Sources for these connections

  1. African Studies Quarterly: John Edwin Mason, Mannenberg, Notes on the Making of an Icon and Anthem (2007)
  2. Mail and Guardian: Jazz singer Sathima Bea Benjamin dead at 76
  3. South African History Online: Hotep Idris Galeta
  4. South African History Online: Miriam Makeba
  5. Wikipedia: Hugh Masekela

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