Lester Kiewit speaks to American jazz pianist and academi,c Darius Brubeck, who recently released his book, “Playing the Changes – Jazz at an African University and on the Road”, co-written with his South African wife Catherine Brubeck. The book chronicles the twenty-three years which they spent in South African from 1983 to 2005, during which he was a lecturer at the University of Natal (later University of Kwazulu-Natal) and also formed a number of student / staff bands which he took to perform at various venues nationally and internationally.