Jazz fraternity mourns Mdantsane guitar maestro Gawulana

Well-known Mdantsane guitarist and bassist Lulama Gawulana, 59, died on Friday night after a short illness, his wife Bongiwe confirmed. “People loved him so much,” she said of the musician, composer and teacher, who was a mainstay on the Eastern Cape Jazz scene for more than four decades. Director of the Standard Bank Jazz Festival in Makhanda, Alan Webster, said Gawulana’s passing was “a real loss for the jazz community”.