Mlungisi Gegana

Jazz aficionados across the country have been sitting up and listening to the sounds of Mlungisi Gegana as a double bass & electric bassist, a band leader, music composer, music arranger, music producer and a session musician.

He is widely versed in south African music idiom and has collaborated with some of the finest jazz musicians in South Africa. Gegana’s combos have graced stages of South Africa’s major jazz festivals and premier live music venues.

I have performed with South African and international musicians on local and global stages including Sweden, France, Norway, Algeria, Namibia, Mozambique, Lesotho, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

The most memorable of all my performances was with Zim Ngqawana at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Netherland and a saxophonist from an America leading jazz fusion band called Yellow Jackets by the name of Bob Mintzer at Sun City Super Bowl as a backing musician.

I have been featured on gospel, pop, African traditional music, contemporary and mainstream jazz albums as a session bass player. I often experiment with cross culture cross-genre and cross generational music from the young and old, and I’m rooted in African jazz tradition.

I am originally from the historical jazz hub of Queenstown, in the Eastern Cape, which has produced the world renown names in music such as Victor Madoda Ndlazilwana, Mongezi Feza, Margaret
(Singana) Mcingana, Stompie Mavi, Pat Matshikiza, Madoda Bobelo, Desmond and Madoda Malothana, Nonzwakazi Nguna, Nomuntu Kapa and many more.