The Eastern Cape has a long jazz tradition and as part of the provincial government's arts development programme, the Eastern Cape Department of Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture presents an ensemble of musicians from the Amathole district of the Eastern ...

A conflation of composers from South Africa, Israel and Sweden is certainly worth experiencing. Pianist Andre Petersen began his education and career as a classical musician, but jazz has become his strength and love. He is firmly established on the ...

One of the sell-out trademarks of the Jazz Festival in Grahamstown is the Awesome Big Band - a unique selection of top international jazz musicians in a standard Big Band format. A band of this nature is also known as ...

One of the sell-out trademarks of the Jazz Festival in Grahamstown is the Awesome Big Band - a unique selection of top international jazz musicians in a standard Big Band format. A band of this nature is also known as ...

The Eastern Cape has a long jazz tradition and as part of the provincial government's arts development programme, the Eastern Cape Department of Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture presents an ensemble of musicians from Cacadu District of the Eastern Cape, ...

Everyone knows Freshlyground. Their vibrant, danceable rhythms and unmistakably African joie de vivre have permeated our homes, our dance floors and our shopping malls, putting smiles on faces and getting toes tapping. Emerging in 2002 in Cape Town, this mix ...

Everyone knows Freshlyground. Their vibrant, danceable rhythms and unmistakably African joie de vivre have permeated our homes, our dance floors and our shopping malls, putting smiles on faces and getting toes tapping. Emerging in 2002 in Cape Town, this mix ...

What do you get if you add a Dutch flute player from Surinam, a Norwegian percussionist enamoured with traditional African rhythms and a Khoi descendent proud of his musical heritage, which he presents on the European jazz circuit? An exchange ...

Guitarist Jonathan Crossley undertook a very successful national tour earlier this year with his original compositions, performing around the country with musicians from the Czech Republic, where his music has gained great popularity. Crossley has become known for his use ...

The phenomenal young drummer Kesivan Naidoo is Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz for 2009. He has made his presence felt strongly in South Africa over the past decade and he has begun to carve himself an international reputation. He ...

The Eastern Cape Department of Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture, as part of its arts development programme, presents an ensemble of musicians from the Nelson Mandela (Port Elizabeth) district of the Eastern Cape.

For years Norwegian trumpeter Arne Hiorth has been promoting musical contact between South Africa and Norway, particularly through his innovative combination of professionals and students in the North Sea Big Band, drawing on compositions and arrangements from both countries. The ...

The Offshore Jazz Ensemble - Martin Wolfaardt (piano), Paul Gibbings (bass), Jonathan Sweetman (drums) - is one of the most dynamic young bands in the country and has emerged from the seclusion of Knysna onto the national jazz stage, drawing ...

Born in Surinam, Ronald Snijders (flute) is considered "the most swinging flautist in The Netherlands", and is the inventor of African Surinam kawinajazz. He has a Master's Degree in Ethnomusicology and specialises in a conflation of Caribbean, Western and African ...

Soul songstress Simphiwe Dana taps directly into the South African subconscious, appealing with her earthy voice to her Xhosa ancestral roots, yet maintaining a very modern hold on the issues facing Africans. Her lyrics echo the struggle for self-confidence and ...

Soul songstress Simphiwe Dana taps directly into the South African subconscious, appealing with her earthy voice to her Xhosa ancestral roots, yet maintaining a very modern hold on the issues facing Africans. Her lyrics echo the struggle for self-confidence and ...

Melanie Scholtz is one of South Africa's rapidly rising musical stars and, though she graduated cum laude from the UCT Opera School, she is a vocalist grounded in the down-to-earthness of the blues, R&B and legendary jazz singers like Dee ...

The Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Band is led this year by one of South Africa's leading trumpeters - Feya Faku. He will put a small elite combo of the nation's very best young players under the age of 26 ...

Each year the Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Festival sets the stage for a national search for the finest young jazz talent in the country. Hopefuls between 13 and 26 years get the chance to play their hearts out for ...

Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz 2009, drummer Kesivan Naidoo, has consistently pushed the boundaries of the art form whilst remaining true to the fundamental principles of jazz. After a jazz degree at UCT he spent a year in India ...

The Standard Bank has been a central supporter of the arts in South Africa for decades and since 1985 the Standard Bank Young Artist Awards have annually recognised artists pushing the boundaries of their chosen art forms and catching the ...

The Standard Bank has been a central supporter of the arts in South Africa for decades and since 1985 the Standard Bank Young Artist Awards have annually recognised artists pushing the boundaries of their chosen art forms and catching the ...

The Jazz Festival in Grahamstown is renowned for the amazing mix of musicians gathered for a week together, teaching at the Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Festival by day and performing on the Main Jazz Stage at night. 300 students ...

Bassist extraordinaire Victor Masondo, Standard Bank Young Artist in 1996, makes a welcome return to Grahamstown in an intimate quintet. He enjoys huge respect for his abilities on bass, having performed with the likes of Miriam Makeba, Dizzy Gillespie and ...

The origins of this music project are firmly rooted in the soil of our African continent, with its richly diverse peoples and ancient history, and the music produced by this varied group of musicians reflects the polyglot of cultures our ...

The origins of this music project are firmly rooted in the soil of our African continent, with its richly diverse peoples and ancient history, and the music produced by this varied group of musicians reflects the polyglot of cultures our ...

We kick off the 2009 Festival with the beautiful voices of two talented vocalists: from Oslo comes Norwegian singer Guro Gravem Johansen, Assistant Professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music, where she specialises in free improvisation, and from Cape Town ...