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Rus Nerwich
12+ albums
pingouin
about
Rus Nerwich discovered the Saxophone at 18 years old, after seeing Joshua Redman playing in Turkey. There he decided he wanted to become a professional musician. He returned home from his travels and having had no musical education literally begged his way into the University of Cape Town's Jazz program. There he studied with Rene McLean, son of the great Jackie McLean and being so far behind all the other students and with no knowledge of how to read, harmony or anything remotely technical, he set about practicing for 8 hours a day. He then went about learning the hard way by sitting in with everyone and anyone in town. In 2002 he released his first album titled "As Above, So Below". That same year he discovered a book titled, "Yes, they sang" it was a book of songs written in the Ghettos and Concentration camps, this was to set in motion a whole new musical journey. He began a project called "Beyond the Walls". This project is an unprecedented exploration of music from the Holocaust Ghettos and Camps and explores in an improvisational context the artistic creations born by composers, poets and writers during this important time in history. He released and album of this work in 2005. Rus then went to live in Argentina where he put a a trio together, he was invited to play at the prestigious Jazz club in Buenos Aires call "Nototrious" continued to work with his trio and recorded a live album months later. He then returned to South Africa full of inspiration and began wri
