Andile Yenana’s album Who’s Got The Map? is already one of my favourite jazz albums this year. If you want to discover South Africa’s jazz music of today, I guess there couldn’t be a better start. To know more about Andile and his music, just continue reading the jazz-not-jazz interview.
Q: Who’s Got The Map? is your second album as a solo artist. Please tell me in which way it’s different from We Used To Dance and the music you’ve recorded with the Voice project and where do you see your progress as songwriter/pianist?
Andile Yenana: This is my last Quintet recording, as I will be concentrating on trio material for my 3rd release. ‘Who’s Got The Map’ in comparison with ‘We Used To Dance’ is gratifying in the sense that I have written more material than I did with ‘We Used To Dance’ and with Voice projects.
Q: Please tell me how you’ve met the musicians involved on Who’s Got The Map and tell me more about the musical vision you share.
Andile Yenana: Sydney Mnisi has worked with me on my first album and he is a member of Voice. Sydney Mavundla was my collegue at varsity. We work on each others compositions when ever we have time and I am glad that Sydney Mnisi has once again contributed a tune on this album.
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2006/28/2 at 13:43
[…] jazz-not-jazz blog posts an interview with one of South Africa’s leading jazz artist Andile Yenana. “Andile Yenana’s album Who’s Got The Map? is already one of my favourite jazz albums this year. If you want to discover South Africa’s jazz music of today, I guess there couldn’t be a better start.” […]