Dr Jeff ‘The Jazzman’ Robinson, is an adept multi-instrumentalist and artist, his primary platform for performance is with the jazz flute and alto saxophone. Playing as a part of the Melvin Peters Quartet that travelled to the Nantes Rendezvous de L’Erdre (2004) and featuring regularly with the Platform Jazz ensemble, Dr Robinson was formerly a lecturer in Music Education at UKZN and has been involved with the CJPM since 1998 under its first director and good friend, Darius Brubeck. His work as both an educator and a performer are an inherent part of his ‘musicing,’ and his doctoral thesis, The Darwinisation of Music Education, is a deep dive into the adaptive origins of the human brain and its capacity for both music-making and music appreciation. A lover of lyric and poetic literature, he sets the mic alight with the language of his instrumental soloing, creating the space for the heart to meet the mind and together find the soul.
