In a performance and political career that spanned more than six decades, Ndikho Xaba’s effect is perhaps best measured by the force of his ideas and how he interacted with others, as opposed to how much music he recorded.
At the height of the Black Power movement and the spiritual jazz era, Xaba led the San Francisco-based group Ndikho Xaba and the Natives through garage recordings that yielded their eponymous album, released in 1971. On Xaba’s return, to Durban, the two eventually ran into each other, sparking off years of collaboration and explorations in indigenous music methods. “I did a study on exiled jazz musicians from South Africa and he was one of the people I ended up speaking to, because he had a rounded experience of South African music.
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