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…

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…

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>…