Jazz aficionados, rejoice! The Cape Town Jazzathon is celebrating its 29th anniversary at the V&A Waterfront this weekend.

Its jazz is both similar and different from American jazz. First of all, at the time—the late '40s-50s—we wouldn't even call it jazz if we didn't identify so completely with Black Americans, both in ...

UK musician Jacob Collier has been announced as a headliner for the 2026 Cape Town International Jazz Festival. The event will take place on 27 and 28 March 2026, at the Cape Town International ...

The Cape Town International Jazz Festival takes place over two jam-packed nights, on five simultaneous stages. Now in its sixteenth year, it also includes a number of ancillary events during festival ...

The Cape Town International Jazz Festival (CTIJF) is not merely an event; it encapsulates the very essence of a city, telling its story through rhythm, improvisation, and sound. Having its roots in ...

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Local jazz veterans appearing at this year’s Cape Town International Jazz Festival reflect on the city’s vibrant musical heritage. There is an unsung Cape Town song in the countless devout, talented, ...

In most cities, finding the hottest jazz is a matter of knowing which club to go to. But it’s not so simple in Cape Town. Although this city boasts its own jazz genre (the lilting, highly ...

About 10 years ago, at an intimate soirée at my apartment, an acquaintance of my best friend asked me how I could stand listening to something that sounded like cats fighting on a thorny hedge. He was ...

The 10th annual Cape Town International Jazz Festival will be held April 3 to 4 in Cape Town, South Africa. The festival attracted 33,500 people in 2008. This year it will present 40 bands on five ...