Music and heritage education NPC is helping deliver new education resources to libraries, and music schools.
Johnny Dyani Songbook: 20 compositions transcribed in 4 keys of Real Book in Germany, Johannesburg and East London. Designed into an A4 black and white book of 100 pages with card front and back cover. Licenced from Steeplchase in Denmark. Printed by BK Book Binders in Durban.
This book is tailor made for Jazz departments at Pretoria (UP), Wits, Cape Town (UCT), KwaZulu Natal (UKZN), Fort Hare and Nelson Mandela Bay University (NMU), International Library of African Music Makhanda.
www.afribeat.com a living resource where transcriptions on the website are made available as a dynamic and permanent resource.
MasterClasses with international musicians and educators: for the development of new learning instructional resources to accompany the Songbook.
Musicians to teach this songbook include: Daniel Guggenheim and Christopher Dell from Frankfurt, Allen Jacobson Canada, Thomas Dyani Copenhagen and Claude Deppa, John Edwards from London
Capacity Building Workshops together with international facilitators, Eastern Cape and Gauteng Educators and visiting professionals from Johannesburg will join with a special guest, and living legends and unsung heroes.
South African jazz musicians from schools universities community outreach programmes and orchestra’s, will have the opportunity to engage with this supreme set of musicians.
Our workshops take place during school holidays and are targeted to schools, community centres, universities from the entire Eastern Cape and Gauteng Regions. Students are provided transport costs and free access to the workshops
Legacy
With a goal to create a long-term and sustainable resource around the education of Johnny Mbizo Dyani, one great unsung musical hero of Duncan Village,the multi-media approach is an important action. Recordings of the virtual masterclass together with photography, audio and visual recordings of the workshop are valuable additional educational resources.These are complimentary resources to the songbook and are edited and published online our youtube channel @jazzuhuru and website www.afribeat.com as permanent long-term resources.
Archives are provided to education to bridge the gap between geography and history, bringing much needed awareness to the political and cultural achievements of exiled South African jazz musicians together with the supportive creative and collaborative German jazz musicians in this unique artistic collaboration with the new generation of Eastern Cape jazz stars.
Jazz Against Apartheid international bandleader Daniel Guggenheim and the international JAA band has been performing arrangements for 16 compositions of Johnny Dyani since the inception of the band. South African band-leader veteran Easter Cape bass player Lex Futshane has developed a South African repertoire of Johnny Dyani’s work. The collaboration of musicians join on stage together to perform together.
A collaboration between veteran international musicians and young musicians through workshops in for future students of the music.
Introduction of the music of exile heritage veterans such as Johnny Dyani to schools, academies and teachers.
Performance workshops and training for music and freedom through collaborative and improvised performance of compositions by legends of jazz and the struggle for freedom celebrating liberation hero veterans.
South Africa and Germany share inglorious, burdening experiences in their history. The apartheid system in South Africa was inspired in essential points by the race laws of the National Socialists in Germany. And, as a result, the experiences of exile that the cultural avant-garde of both countries went through. Structurally similar is also the ignoring of these very experiences up to the rejection and denial of the achievements of those who had to spend substantial parts of their lives in exile.
With Leinhos’s life’s work being recognised in South Africa with the prestigious OR Tambo presidential award (2021), a space was created for the political and cultural achievements of exiled South African jazz musicians together with the supportive creative and collaborative German jazz musicians to return to South Africa to share, inspire and create a fresh collaborative musical experience.
Although Dyani died shortly after the inaugural event in 1986, Leinhos has preserved this treasure for South Africans with roughly 100 Concerts, Poetry recitals, Workshops, Exhibitions and Symposia in Germany, Switzerland and the USA presenting the music of Johnny Mbizo Dyani. JAA is a testimony to the passionate struggle against apartheid, a biography of a life in exile and a complete documentation of 25 years of exile history.