{"id":260221,"date":"2026-08-06T09:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/260221\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T09:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:54:11","slug":"south-african-pianist-bokani-dyer-leads-his-trio-on-sunday-rotation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/260221\/","title":{"rendered":"South African pianist Bokani Dyer leads his trio on Sunday Rotation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most acclaimed jazz musicians to emerge from the current South African scene, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrti.org\/tags\/bokani-dyer\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bokani Dyer<\/a> has a compelling piano style rooted in churchly uplift, folkloric lyricism and deep harmonic fluency. <\/p>\n<p>He has lately branched out into a crossover mode with vocals, notably on his album <a href=\"https:\/\/bokanidyer.lnk.to\/RadioSechaba\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Radio Sechaba<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 but during a recent one-nighter at Chris&#8217; Jazz Cafe, he led an acoustic trio with Timothy Norton on bass and Lumanyano Mzi on drums. This was a WRTI Live event, and we&#8217;re pleased to bring it to you on this week&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrti.org\/show\/sunday-rotation\" class=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday Rotation<\/a>, at 8 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>Here is video of &#8220;Hyacinth,&#8221; Dyer&#8217;s dedication to the South African pianist, saxophonist, guitarist and arranger Bheki Mseleku, who died in London in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year we lost another great South African pianist \u2014\u00a0arguably the greatest, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrti.org\/tags\/abdullah-ibrahim\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Abdullah Ibrahim<\/a>. We asked Dyer to speak briefly about the influence and legacy of this great musician, and here is what he had to say. <\/p>\n<p>Bokani Dyer on Abdullah Ibrahim \ud83c\udfb9\ud83c\uddff\ud83c\udde6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the most acclaimed jazz musicians to emerge from the current South African scene, Bokani Dyer has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-260221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}