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Muirhead Quartet

BMusHons UCT

Cape Town Jazz Festival 2007 as ‘The Muirhead Quartet’

Cape Town Jazz Festival 2008 with ‘Bepop Guitar Summit’

Collaborative work exhibiting at the Sasol Museum in Stellenbosch, ‘Moeder Natuur Mother Nature’ opened Nov 2010.

Composer and band leader for rap/jazz crossover group ‘The Illuminate Getuies’

Co-creator of band and music for ‘Black Market Trio’ with Andrew Lilly (Jazz lecturer at UCT)

Played with in concert: Winston Mankunku; Sibongeli Khumalo; Judith Siphuma; Nonthuthuzela Puani; Buddy Welles; Kesivan Naido; Emily Bruce; Jason Reolon

Continuous gigging on the Cape Town jazz circuit.

Played internationally in various musical performances.

Composed music for nature films such as ‘Squid vs Whale’; ‘Swimming Scared’; ‘Last Lioness of Liuwa’.....

Composed music for the 2010 FIFA World Cup together with Grant Mclachlan.

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Album Review

Muirhead Quartet: All or Nothing

Read "All or Nothing" reviewed by Seton Hawkins


The sprawling double-CD release, All or Nothing, by the Cape Town-based Muirhead Quartet proves to be one of 2010's most forcefully unique, probing, and genre-defying albums. Featuring four stellar artists, the album packs a tremendous aural wallop by offering a veritable master class on just about every major style of jazz that has emerged in the past fifty years. While many recent jazz releases offer little more than star-studded jam sessions, All or Nothing presents a rare treat, with its ...

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The mans head is filled with compositions. I have been lucky to have a copy to review and play on my show, all I can say is go get it as a present to yourself then get another to give as a gift.

Eric Allen - Jazz Rendezvous, Radio 2000

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