Time for some jazz in eShowe
Don't miss singer, songwriter and pianist Estelle Kokot live in eShowe tomorrow
LONDON-BORN South African singer, songwriter, pianist Estelle Kokot will be performing her brand new show The Jazz Feminine in Africa at Thornley’s Guest House in eShowe tomorrow.
The show begins at 2pm and the music explores female song writers in the jazz idiom, in keeping with the South African Spring in September.
Kokot will be exploring poets, singers and songwriters from Canada, America and the island ‘that is my daily bread abode, to the continent I regard as my soul-home.’
Great line-up
The programme will feature new songs by Estelle, Afrikaans poet Ingrid Jonker and Zulu-Zambian composer/lyricist Dorothy Masuka.
Kokot will also present works by English poet Mark Hillman that she has set to music over the years, flavoured by her South African roots.
Homer’s Odyssey from Penelope’s perspective is an angle that Kokot will be highlighting.
Solo career
In 1990 Estelle went solo and has sung at five Big Band Jazz Galas at Pretoria’s State Theatre.
Estelle moved to London at the end of 1993 and soon established herself on the live scene, performing at Pizza Express and The Vortex Jazz Clubs, Cambridge Modern Jazz Club and Band on the Wall in Manchester.
She has performed at various international jazz festivals, including the Dusseldorf Jazz Rally and at theatres in Switzerland and Germany.
Estelle released two studio albums Alternative Therapy (1999) and SAMA nominated Information (2006) with London based line-ups that include Mick Hutton, Alan Skidmore, Tristan Powell, Rod Youngs, Yaron Stavi and Gene Calderazzo.
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