Kesivan Naidoo and the Lights-Standard Bank Jazz festival

Kesivan Naidoo and the Lights at the Standard Bank Jazz festival. The phenomenal young drummer Kesivan Naidoo is Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz for 2009. He has made his presence felt strongly in South Africa over the past decade and he has begun to carve himself an international reputation. He is a fine example of the success South Africa is beginning to reap from its youth development programmes, as he was selected for the Standard Bank National Schools Big Band in 1995 and the Standard Bank National Youth Big Band in 1999 and 2000. His particular strengths are a transformatory energy on stage, a keen commitment to maintaining the integrity of his artistic expression, and a willingness to explore all musical genres in an effort to give voice to the music inside. The bands he performs with and composes for range in style from post-bop to traditional Indian to acid jazz and all have one thing in common they are cutting-edge. Here he fuses a variety of musicians who have influenced him in past years, drawing from them their musical light to achieve a common goal on stage. Joining him is the virtuosic alto saxophonist from Stockholm, Johan Hörlén; Australian trombonist Adrian Mears, a leading light in the European avant-garde; Reza Khota, steeped in Indian and Classical guitar; adventurous Cape Town pianist Andre Petersen; and one of Europes busiest bass players, Swede Martin Sjöstedt. In this number they perform a version of "all the single ladies" by Beyonce

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• Kesivan Naidoo
• Johan Hörlén
• Adrian Mears
• Reza Khota
• Martin Sjöstedt.
• Andre Petersen
• National Arts Festival
• all the single ladies
• Beyonce

[Jehuniko]

Kesivan is dope