Nigel Wrench writes: "This is Sibongile Khumalo, appearing the London Jazz Festival on Friday and on PM this evening.
Trained in opera in South Africa during the apartheid years, she turned to jazz because opera was generally only performed at state-run theatres, where a black woman in a leading opera part was unthinkable.
I snapped these pictures while she rehearsed with a band including Jack de Johnette, pictured here, widely thought to be one of the world's leading jazz drummers."
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