Record ID:
59022929 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 88178623
Heading:
Birth:
  • 19210307
  • Queenstown (South Africa)
Death:
  • 19680303
  • Lusaka (Zambia)
Associated with:
  • South Africa
Lived/located in:
  • Zambia
Occupations:
  • Jazz musicians Pianists Journalists
Used for:
  • Matshikiza, Todd, d. 1968
Notes:
  • His Chocolates for my wife, 1982, c1961 t.p. (Todd Matshikiza) p. 4 of cover (d. 1968; composer)
  • With the lid off, 2000 front cover flap (Todd Matshikiza; b. 1921 in Queenstown, Eastern Cape, So. Africa; taught Eng. and mathematics; moved to Johannesburg in 1949; composer of jazz and choral music; journalist; moved to London in 1960; moved to Lusaka, Zambia where he died in 1968) p. 5 (Todd T. Matshikiza)
  • Dictionary of African Biography, accessed February 21, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database (Matshikiza, Todd; jazz musician, pianist, journalist; born 07 March 1921 in Queenstown, South Africa; played jazz piano with the Manhattan Brothers and Nancy Jacobs and Her Sisters (1950s); worked for Drum magazine and wrote a column entitled Music for Moderns (1951); was a news editor of the Golden City Post; received a commission from the Johannesburg City Council for the piece Uxolo (Peace), for two hundred singers and orchestra (1956); composed the score for the musical King Kong (1958); published autobiography, Chocolates for My Wife (1961); was newscaster and producer for the new Zambian Broadcasting Corporation (1964) and music archivist for the Zambian Information Service (1967); died 03 March 1968 in Lusaka, Zambia)
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)911102
Cataloguing source:
  • IEN eng rda DLC DLC DHU-MS