San featuring Zim Ngqawana

San featuring Zim Ngqawana: San Song

by Eyal Hareuveni
July 15, 2005

San Song represents the first appearance on record by one of South Africa's greatest musical treasures, saxophonist Zim Ngqawana. The disc, which presented Ngqawana's soulful vision to the jazz world, was recorded in Oslo in May of 1996 with Norwegian saxophonist Bjørn Ole Solberg and a young and rising Norwegian rhythm section. Ngqawana was 37 years old at the time of the recording; two years had passed after he led a 100-musician troupe at the inauguration of South African president ...