While maintaining its recipe of blending top-flight international acts with local living legends and emerging artists, the Cape Town International Jazz Festival has a new identity, but celebrates old sounds, writes Julian Jonker.
Last weekend Cape Town hosted its fifth North Sea Jazz Festival: as usual, an exciting, edifying, but often downright frustrating experience. The North Sea festival has transcended the purist notions of jazz fanatics, writes Julian Jonker.
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/ 5 September 2003
Cape Town’s annual hip-hop indaba has become a truly national event drawing talent from small-town South Africa, writes Julian Jonker.
Out of the crop of sophisticated, accomplished albums with which independent label Open Records recently started business, Alex van Heerden and Derek Gripper’s <i>Sagtevlei</i> is the most consistently fine and immediate, writes Julian Jonker.