South African Jazz: Marabi

Marabi is a style of music found in South Africa that serves both as a style of Jazz and also an underpinning to many other styles of South African Jazz. The Johannesburg-based supergroup Uhadi tells you more!
Learn more at academy.jalc.org
McCoy Mrubata - Tenor Saxophone
Feya Faku - Trumpet
Paul Hanmer - Piano
Herbie Tsoaeli - Bass
Justin Badenhorst - Drums
Eric Suquet - Director
Bill Thomas - Director of Photography
Aaron Chandler - Sound Engineer
Richard Emery - Production Assistant
Seton Hawkins - Producer
Recorded April 5, 2014

[@leonarddhlakama6083]

Great music.Anyone listening in 2021

[@sihlembodlela5540]

It feels good to be African.

[@maribellabindao1479]

Can you answer my module Sana all

[@edmundgregorymiselontlokwa8601]

Ezasemkhumbane, awzwe!!! Our rich South african heritage

[@GunsNRosses1]

Great vibes coming out of this sound! They got me feelin goooood

[@JazzAcademy]

+Lucas LaFave Couldn't agree more! Check out another SA style called mbaqanga here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJy5mWt8fqhlh7s

[@jxymxs9570]

I live for African jazz

[@KayBenyarko]

Great videos! I love to see more African concepts coming out of the Jazz at Lincoln center. Love their program with the Ghanaian Addy drummers. Hope to see more. luv u guys!

[@heliomacie4094]

i feel with my heart and soul

[@howecreative]

Really great music and I love that he took you through the theory of the sound on the piano at the end. Super interesting!

[@DumzaMaswana]

I'll be playing this in my show this Sunday ❤️❤️❤️, the grootmans

[@bencloete7586]

I may well be mistaken, but I learnt in school that Marabi came well before the 40s as suggested in this video. It was a music which formed early 1900s in the shebeens following the urbanisation of South Africans around typically the mining hotspots like Witwatersrand. In its most embryonic form, it was played on a simple foot pedal organ of sorts using primary chord progressions, similar to this track. If anyone has any objections or additions to make, please shout! :)

[@DumzaMaswana]

I like this

[@beenaplumber8379]

This is what I have read too, but I have read very little. I need to learn about early marabi, specifically 1920's. I would like to hear marabi from that period. Any suggestions?

[@jimbrownza]

Yep, that's what Lara Allen says in her 1993 MMus thesis.

[@beezy1980]

Started it like 10 10 special ❤️

[@bonnygora4358]

Nice guys i like your music

[@patkays]

Way back 50’s ❤

[@jimsaidi4755]

Wow good music indeed bass player u are talented man

[@hadassah1603]

Miss the good old zim days

[@josephmabutho2541]

Music of our time s

[@aurabrinzei4017]

This is GREAT!!!

[@cly_the_pota]

Hello classmates. I hope you have a good time listening to this Music.

[@snobear.]

Yes 🙂

[@snobear.]

Yes 🙂

[@FatsacksAllday]

I love this!

[@JazzAcademy]

+Fatsacks Allday So do we! You can learn about another style from South Africa (the ghoema) here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iaXJiqt6bbGkj9k

[@royalhartigan]

beautiful, thanks!

[@Ngasii]

Ta Mccoy! Oh my gosh! I did not know this was done. This man taught me so much in the single day I got to meet him now he is teaching the word our magic❤

[@malwandekubheka8889]

This is amazing🔥💯😭❤

[@MujjOMusic]

very nice ♡

[@andrewniedziela]

Fantastic!

[@sophiafrancescabadiola4337]

Eto pinaka favorite ko sa lahat ng na observed ko HAHAHAHSHSHSA relaxing 👁️👄👁️

[@onsi789]

Cos' jazz is chef's kiss. The sound of saxophone is very relaxing😌

[@keithlyannechristieneblanc711]

yasss pati 'yung afrobeat omg

[@jacktowett4678]

I recognise Mc Coy Mrubata and Paul Hanmer , this great team of men have done justice to that sound ... Marabi is lethal...

[@Mr3239202]

drummer!!!!

[@whizzkidkis]

Nice one!!

[@RouanPr]

So Nice ! Does someone know where I would get this sheet ? Or some African jazz sheet ? Thanks !

[@chuenemanamela2615]

Our heritage sound ....hope its protected

[@AsaTokwe]

McCoy Mrubatha

[@MrCharlieroo]

Anyone know how to get in touch with the bass player Herbie Tsoaeli? Thanks

[@DumzaMaswana]

I hope you ended up getting ahold of him...

[@abedinsubashi]

The tenors tone sounds so much like a baritone in the low end

[@kimhazeldaytia3015]

Hello co-grade 10 students👋🏻

[@mikelusjp]

there is no italian subtitle , why?

[@gloxxymilicev213]

I'm here because of modules, send answer.