Kippie Moeketsi has been played on NTS shows including Blank Forms, with Blue Stompin' first played on 25 November 2023.

Kippie Moeketsi (Jeremiah Morolong Moeketsi, Johannesburg, South Africa, 27 July 1925 – 27 April 1983) was a South African jazz alto saxophonist and clarinetist.

He is sometimes referred to as "the father of South African jazz" and as "South Africa's Charlie Parker". He played with and influenced some of South Africa's great musicians, including Jonas Gwangwa, Abdullah Ibrahim, Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masekela.

Born into a musical Johannesburg family, Jeremiah Morolong Moeketsi was the youngest of 11 brothers, and one sister who was a nurse (Mirriam Ntsadi…