Jerry Ngcobo was a well-known keyboard player who worked with many big groups such as Sipho Gumede, Casino and PJ Powers, to name a few. He then joined Stax as a main keyboard player. The band later changed its name to Zakhele Band and he recorded an album with the group which is due for release this month.

Jerry Ngcobo passed away on June 26 and some of his illustrious fellow musos will perform a benefit concert at the BAT Centre on August 7 at 20h00. In the line-up are Sipho Gumede, Stax, Mandla Masuku, Vusi Mkhize & Sakhula, GTX, Barney Bophela, Bhabha Mokoena, Zakhele, Aba Gisane and Pinky V as well as Chris Ntuli and the Durban Black Drifters.