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Author: Oyama Mabandla

Oyama Mabandla is the author of Soul of a Nation: A Quest For the Rebirth of South Africa’s Values. He is a lawyer and businessman, with degrees from Columbia University in New York City, and the University of California San Diego, where he studied under Quincy Troupe, Miles Davis’s biographer. He was at the Hollywood Bowl for Miles last concert on August 25, 1991. All views expressed are his own. 

SKETCHES OF BECOMING: CONVERSATIONS ON MILES

MILES DAVIS [Image: The Audiophile Man]

There are friendships forged in proximity, and others tempered in absence. Stretched across borders, tested by history, and sustained by memory. The musical reflections that follow emerge from the latter: a lifelong dialogue between us. Our paths diverged early under the pressures of exile, yet remained tethered by a shared sensibility, a common ear, and […]

THE SORCERER: MILES DAVIS AT 100

Miles Davis album cover for 'The Electric Years' - Image: MilesDavis.com

The other day, I woke up with a serious affliction. I was hustled and mugged by a tune. I could not banish it from my interiority. It had me in its clutches. The song was Jo-Jo from Miles Davis album Amandla, released in 1989, on the cusp of our democratic breakthrough. The album was an […]