Johnny Dyani has been played over 50 times on NTS, first on 27 October 2013. Johnny Dyani's music has been featured on 52 episodes.

Johnny Mbizo Dyani (30 November 1945 – 24 October 1986) was a South African jazz double bassist and pianist who played with such musicians as Don Cherry, Steve Lacy, David Murray and Leo Smith.

He was born and grew up in Duncan Village, a township of the South African city of East London.

In the early 1960s he was a member of South Africa's first integrated jazz band The Blue Notes, with Mongezi Feza on trumpet, Dudu Pukwana on alto saxophone, Nikele Moyake…