Songbird Sibongile Khumalo celebrates a lifetime of music that has always lived outside the genre box.
Compelling — and often deep-rooted South African — stories characterised this year’s festival.
Jazz pianist Xia Jia closes the gap between the jazz music made by Chinese musicians and by musicians from other countries.
International festivals aren’t the only music in Cape Town. In Gugulethu, a trade union is leading efforts to keep community sounds alive.
The director’s craggy masculinity and individualism are not suited to a subject as subtle as Dave Brubeck.
Jazz is a small genre and the Cape Town Jazz Festival organisers have to realise that they cannot get bums on seats with music for purists only.
Despite finding global fame playing bass for Paul Simon and a host of other artists, local record labels ‘don’t know what to do’ with Bakithi Kuma.
The <em>Guardian</em> in London called her "the Queen of African Jazz" and composer Pinise Saul more than merits the title.
Two books take a fresh and wide-ranging look at the theme of music-making and politics.
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/ 18 November 2011
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