SiriusXM’s Real Jazz Channel serves as host to a weekly South African Jazz show. Playlists for recent shows can be found here (where available, album titles are linked to purchase pages).

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October 26/27 Show: The Music of Steve Dyer

(for more information on Steve Dyer’s US tour, click here)

• People Spirit - Steve Dyer (from Lifecycle)

• Noroeste 1 - Mahube (from Zenzele)

• Kindred Spirits - Steve Dyer (from Enhlizweni - Song Stories From My Heartland)

• Inyembezi - Steve Dyer (from Enhlizweni - Song Stories From My Heartland)

• Oxam - Mahube (from Music from Southern Africa)

• The Young Ones - Steve Dyer (from Multipolar)

• Qhubeka - Mahube (from Qhubeka!)

• Thixo - Mahube (from Zenzele)

• Medu - Bokani Dyer (from Radio Sechaba)

October 19/20 Show: The Music of Bheki Mseleku and Nduduzo Makhathini, Part 2

(for more information on the upcoming Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra show of Mseleku’s and Makhathini’s music, click here)

• Violet Flame - - Bheki Mseleku (from the album Beauty of Sunrise)

• Umsunduzi - Nduduzo Makhathini (from the album Mother Tongue)

• How Sweet Thy Sound - Nduduzo Makhathini (from the album Listening to the Ground)

• Through the Years - Bheki Mseleku (from the album Timelessness)

• The Age of Inner Knowing - Bheki Mseleku (from the album Celebration)

• Waltz for Trane - Nduduzo Makhathini (from the album Listening to the Ground)

• Lagos Blues - Nduduzo Makhathini (from the album Listening to the Ground)

• Timelessness - Bheki Mseleku (from the album Timelessness)

October 12/13 Show: The Music of Bheki Mseleku and Nduduzo Makhathini, Part 1

• Monwabisi - Bheki Mseleku (from Home at Last)

• From An Old Bag of Umkhumbane - Nduduzo Makhathini (from Listening to the Ground)

• For You - Nduduzo Makhathini (from Listening to the Ground)

• Suluman Saud - Bheki Mseleku (from Beauty of Sunrise)

• Meera-Ma (Divine Mother) - Bheki Mseleku (from Meditations)

• Igagu - Nduduzo Makhathini (from Reflections)

• Ekhaya - Bheki Mseleku (from Beyond the Stars)

• Nomkhubulwane - Nduduzo Makhathini (from Matunda Ya Kwanza, Volume 1)

October 5/6 Show: Celebrating Abdullah Ibrahim

(for more information on Seton Hawkins’ upcoming Swing University course on Abdullah Ibrahim and Bheki Mseleku, click here)

• Sad Times, Bad Times/King Kong - Dollar Brand Trio (from Plays Sphere Jazz)

• Gafsa - Jazz Epistles (from Verse 1)

• Dollar's Dance - Dollar Brand Trio (from Duke Ellington Presents Dollar Brand Trio)

• Black and Brown Cherries - Abdullah Ibrahim (from Black Lightning)

• Ntsikana's Bell - Abdullah Ibrahim and Johnny Dyani (from Good News from Africa)

• It Never Entered My Mind - Sathima Bea Benjamin and Abdullah Ibrahim (from Song Spirit)

• Chisa - Abdullah Ibrahim and Ekaya (from African River)

• Mannenberg Revisited - Abdullah Ibrahim and Ekaya (from Water from an Ancient Well)

• Blue Bolero - Abdullah Ibrahim (from African Magic)

• The Mountain Of The Night (from African Suite)

September 28/29 Show: The Artists of This Year’s Joy of Jazz Festival

• Phola - Steve Dyer (from Enhlizweni: Song Stories from My Heartland)

• Mr. Harris - Andile Yenana (from Who’s Got the Map)

• Mfaz’ Omnyama - Nomfundo Xaluva (from Ndilapha)

• Lihlanzekile - Thandi Ntuli (from Rainbow Revisited)

• Neo Marabi - Kyle Shepherd Trio (from A Dance More Sweetly Played)

• Wrong Foot Blues - Peter Auret (from Hope Dies Last)

• One for the Plein - Benjamin Jephta (from Homecoming Revisited)

• Indlela - Xolisa Dlamini (from Fire Born)

• Pearls of Love - Moss Mogale Unit (from Forget Me Not)

• Soweto Highway - Billy Monama (from Rebounce)

• Mvula - L’wei Netshivale (from Zwonaka)

September 7/ 8 Show: Celebrating The Mzantsi Jazz Awards

• Timelessness - Bheki Mseleku (from Timelessness)

• Ikhwezi - Thembi Dunjana (from God Bless iKapa. God Bless Mzantsi.)

• Echoes of Gugulethu - Thembi Dunjana (from God Bless iKapa. God Bless Mzantsi.)

• All Seasons - Themba Mkhize (from Hands On)

• Monwabisi - Adam Glasser (from SA and Beyond)

• Tshomi - Ncesh Nonxishi (from Apho Kungenje)

• Scullery Department - Sydney Mavundla (from Dirge for Our Fathers)

• The Sabbath Movement 1 (Deliverance from Evildoers) - Gabi Motuba (from The Sabbath)

• Monyamane - Tlokwe Sehume (from Ba Utlwile)