Julian Jonker
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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…
The new jazz agenda
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…
Bring on the battle
Cape Town’s annual hip-hop indaba has become a truly national event drawing talent from small-town South Africa, writes Julian Jonker.
Avant goema
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>…