Musical Echoes tells the life story of the South African jazz vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin. Born in Cape Town in the 1930s, Benjamin came to know American jazz and popular music through the radio, movies, records, and live stage and dance band performances. She was especially moved by the voice of Billie Holiday. In 1962 she and Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim) left South Africa together for Europe, where they met and recorded with Duke Ellington. Benjamin and Ibrahim spent their lives on the move between Europe, the United States, and South Africa until 1977, when they left Africa for New York City and declared their support for the African National Congress. In New York, Benjamin established her own record company and recorded her music independently from Ibrahim. Musical Echoes reflects twenty years of archival research and conversation between this extraordinary jazz singer and the South African musicologist Carol Ann Muller. The narrative of Benjamin's life and times is interspersed with Muller's reflections on the vocalist's story and its implications for jazz history.
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Sathima and Abdullah with Boots the dog in Central Park, mid-1960s. Collection of SatHima Bea Benjamin.
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Duke Ûniversity Press gratefully acknowledges the support of the LLoyd Hibberd Endowment of the American Musicological Society, which provided funds toward the publication of this book.
Short audio clips of Sathima Benjamin’s music are available for listening at http:/www.africanmusical echoes.org/ as is information on purchasing tracks from Cape Town oveand other Benjamin recordings.
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A Diasporic Generation
Contents
îŝ OF FîGUéŝix éFàçéxiii àçNOéGéNŝxxiii à îUé Y àUà îàî: “Sathima”xxxi ŝàîà: My Life’s Journey as a Jazz Singerxxxiii 1. Beginnings1 2. A Home Within11 çà: Recollecting a Musical Past 11 éŝONŝé: Entanglement in Race and Music 33 3. Cape Jazz53 çà: Popular Music, Dance Bands, and Jazz 53 éŝONŝé: Imagining Musical Lineage through Duke and Billie 95 4.JazzMigrancy128 çà: Musicians Abroad 128 éŝONŝé: A ew African Diaspora 167 5. A ew ork Embrace189 çà: Coming to the City 189 éŝONŝé: Women inking in Jazz, or the Poetics of a Musical Self 217 6. Returning Home?242 çà:Cape Town ove/ An Archeology of Popular Song 242 éŝONŝé: Jazz History as Living History 260 7. Musical Echoes271 çà: Sathima’s Musical Echo 271 éŝONŝé: Reections on Echo 274 8. Ôutcomes—Jazz in the World283 NOéŝ297 ŝééçé éFééNçéŝ325 îNéX337
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1. Cover of the çA Morning in Paris.xii 2. Sathima in her apartment at the Hotel Chelsea, 1991.4 3. Sathima and Carol at Penn Station, July 2010.4 4. Sathima Bea Benjamin as a baby.16 5. Sathima, her sister Joan, and a cousin.16 6. Benjamin family, Sathima as a baby held by Ma Benjamin.18 7. Two couples in ballroom attire.57 8. Cape Town Jive Band.59 9. Jimmy Adams’s Swing Band.63 10. Sathima’s mother at the piano.68 11. olden City Dixies deplaning in South Africa.75 12. Jimmy Adams with American School of Music jacket and Sathima’s sisterEdith reen, 1996.79 13. Harold Jephthah, December 1999.79 14. Sathima singing at a nightclub, late 1950s.81 15. ew lineages in Paris with Duke Ellington, Dollar Brand Trio, and Billy Strayhorn, from the çA Morning in Paris.97 16. Sathima singing at the Antibes Jazz estival with the Dollar Brand Trio.111 17. Sathima singing, with Abdullah Ibrahim on piano.150 18. Sathima’s and Abdullah’s son, Tsakwe.157 19. Abdullah and Sathima meet President Samora Machel of Mozambique and his then-wife, raÇa.161 20. Sathima and Abdullah Ibrahim on their wedding day in London, 26 ebruary 1965. 171 21. School picture of Sathima’s daughter, Tsidi.192 22. Sathima’s son, Tsakwe, in the early 1990s.194 23. Sathima singing at Sweet Rhythm.211 24.Sathima’sfavoritebassplayer,BusterWilliams.211 25. e bass player Buster Williams and the drummer eorge rey play at Sathima’s seventieth birthday at Sweet Rhythm.212 26. Sathima singing at Sweet Rhythm, with Stephen Scott on piano.212 27. Sathima with her daughter, the hip-hop artist Tsidi Ibrahim, aka Jean rae,at Sweet Rhythm.213