Shane Cooper: Standard Bank Award winner for Jazz, plus ‘Card on Spokes’
Jazz bassist and Card On Spoke founder Shane Cooper is the 2013 Standard Bank Young Artist award winner for jazz. The win means he’s recorded a new jazz album and will […]
Jazz bassist and Card On Spoke founder Shane Cooper is the 2013 Standard Bank Young Artist award winner for jazz. The win means he’s recorded a new jazz album and will […]
Jazz trumpeter, composer and flugelhorn player Marcus Wyatt returns from a residency in Basel to release his latest offering: an album honouring South African traditions and evidencing a rich thread of international […]
In 2006, Marcus Wyatt released “Language12“, an album that I’ve quipped has been my favourite SA jazz album of the year ever since. Now he launches a new album composed in Sophiatown and […]
Victor Ntoni, legendary jazz bassist, composer and arranger, died in a Johannesburg hospital on Monday 28 January 2013. He was 65. It is all the more poignant since this self-effacing […]
Toya Delazy: you know her from the ‘Pump It On’, from the spiky hair and “smartie” pastel clothes and the Hyundai i20 TV advert. The great-grand-daughter of South African music icon Princess Magogo […]
French trumpet legend Erik Truffaz has danced his notes across multiple genres from jazz to hip hop and ‘world music’. He brings his quartet to Cape Town for a single […]
Jazz On The Rocks returns, with a seaside stage, a weekend of family camping and jazz-drenched nights and days – as well as renowned international jazz pianist and singer, Joe […]
Rekindling the ‘Sax Summit’ concerts of yesteryear, veteran musicians Barney Rachabane and Khaya Mahlangu will join local talents Mark Fransman and Victor Kula for ‘Yakal’inkomo: The Legacy’, a celebration of […]
Cape Town’s ‘City Hall Sessions’ opens with two performances by the unique cross-continental collaboration of Ray Lema, DRC-born and Paris-based pianist and Chico Cesar, the Brazilian singer, songwriter and guitarist […]
At just 25, jazz pianist and composer Bokani Dyer has seen his music take him to Sweden, Norway and New York, win the 2011 Standard Bank Young Artists Award and […]