Jazz Drummer’s Death “A Human Tragedy”

A report, carried from the Cape Argus in Cape Town, on the death of South African drummer Lulu Gontsana, which arts and culture minister Pallo Jordan called one of the worst human tragedies to befall the nation.

It traced Gontsana's path from Ibhayi near Port Elizabeth, where he grew up in a musical family, to Johannesburg in 1981, where he joined Spirits Rejoice, and to the University of Natal, where he studied jazz on a scholarship and played in the Jazzanians under pianist Darius Brubeck. The article described him as a key figure in South African indigenous jazz.

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