London’s own Adam Glasser has just won CD of the year for the CD Free at First in the contemporary jazz category at tonight’s sixteenth South African Music Awards, in a ceremony at Sun City. The CD by the harmonica player and composser is an inspired and uplifting mixture of standards and township-inspired originals, and recommended.

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Adam’s Myspace has a gig schedule.

One thing is for certain: there’ll be a new cause for celebration when Adam plays at the African Stars night at Ronnie Scott’s on Saturday May 15th.

And where can you register your own words of congratulation? The comments section below, maybe?