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 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 ...

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 ...

The Cape Town International Jazz Festival (CTIJF) has a long and storied history dating back to the 2000s, and with this year’s edition being the 22nd, it is clear that through all the unexpected ...

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 music industry has long been a notoriously male-dominated space, often sidelining the contributions and leadership of women. However, the Cape Town International Jazz Festival (CTIJF) - Africa's ...