The talented South African drummer Kesivan Naidoo is performing in a Big Band Experience.
He has worked with many local jazz icons such as Miriam Makeba, pianists Hotep Galeta and Bheki Mseleku, saxophonist Winston Mankunku, and drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo. Naidoo channelled his reverential feel for history, space and place in his seminal 2014 album, Brotherhood.
Naidoo* is performing alongside the following artists: Adrian Mears (conductor, arranger), Kyle Shepherd* (piano), Rheza Khota (guitar), Benjamin Jeptha* (bass), Charley Wagner, Darren English, Sakhile Simane and Lee Thomson (trumpets), Julia Reuffert, Siya Makuzeni*, Andreas Tschoppe and Maxine Troglauer (trombones), Justin Bellairs and Tara Sarter (alto sax), Sisonke Xonti* and Marc Stucki (tenor sax), and Danni McKinnon (baritone sax).
* Standard Bank Young Artists of the Year