South Africa
For 15 years Darius Brubeck and Afro Cool Concept (a band with South Africa’s premier alto saxophonist Barney Rachabane, toured all over southern Africa and overseas. The band’s last CD, Still On My Mind, was released in 2003 on Sheer Sound. Other recordings released by Sheer include Before It’s Too Late (2004) and Tugela Rail and Other Tracks (2007).
International tours included a series of concerts celebrating 10 years of democracy in South Africa. In 2004, together again with his brothers (Chris and Dan), Darius headlined at the National Arts “Joy of Jazz Festival”, South Africa, and directed the South African National Youth Jazz Band at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland.
Beginning in 1988 with “The Jazzanians”, the first mixed-race student band from a South African university, Brubeck formed several bands that officially represented his university and South Africa. He was also invited to play and/or give workshops in the UK, Europe, Turkey, Peru, and Thailand and at five International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE) conferences in the USA.
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