Zim Ngqawana

Zim Ngqawana was one of South Africa's leading jazz musicians. In addition to leading his own band, Ingoma, Ngqawana played with such influential jazz musicians as Max Roach, Keith Tippett, Abdullah Ibrahim, and Hugh Masekela and with top-notch modern dance ensembles the Free Flight Dance Company and the Moving into Dance Company. South African daily newspaper The Star referred to Ngqawana as "the most visible, hardest working, younger man in jazz." The youngest of five children, Ngqawana didn't begin playing the flute until the age of 21. He advanced quickly on the instrumen...