Pianist Bokani Dyer, Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz 2011, is a very impressive young musician, technically skilled beyond his years and artistically creative in a wide array of jazz genres. He grew up in Botswana, went to school in Johannesburg, studied jazz formally at UCT and has played with diverse musicians and bands, from the Afro-Jazz of Jimmy Dludlu to Mozambican Moreira Chonguica's eclectic world music to a host of mainstream and modern jazz groups. Despite his age, he has rapidly moved from being a sideman to being a composer and leader of his own group, producing jazz that covers the spectrum from groove to post-bop. He pays obvious respect to the African jazz greats he is following, but is clearly also on a new path. Tonight he harnesses the vibrant talents of his youthful contemporaries - Angelo Syster (guitar) Shane Cooper (bass), Ayanda Sikade (drums) - and adds the watchful eye of experience in Buddy Wells (sax) and Marcus Wyatt (trumpet).