Mackay davashe biography of mahatma

South African musician (1920–1972)

Makwenkwe "Mackay" Davashe (1920–1972) was a South African musician. He achieved success as a saxophonist and composer with the Manhattan Brothers and later the Jazz Epistles.^[1][2]

Biography

Davashe was born in 1920 in the South African city of East London.^[3] He played the pennywhistle in his youth before switching to the saxophone.

He toured with several older musicians, including the Jazz Maniacs, a top South African orchestra, in the mid-1940s. In 1952 several bands in the Johannesburg region sought to cover "Majuba", a song he wrote.

Mackay davashe biography of mahatma gandhi

That year, Drum magazine wrote that Davashe's "renditions of African themes are the best we have had so far".^[1][4] In 1950 he was leading a group called the Shantytown Sextet, in which Kippie Moeketsi played.

Davashe's style at the time was described as similar to that of tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins. By the mid-1950s Davashe h