Sunday 14th April Capital Jazz club presented yet another successful Meet and Jazz, 3rd edition. The Heineken powered event is attracting a new found audience that comes to celebrate the unique musical style and brilliance…
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David Muriithi: Getting to Create and Being Paid to Create, That to me is the Biggest Privilege
David Muriithi is a Kenyan disc jockey popularly known as DJ D-Lite. He is a talent and event manager, music promoter and the Managing Director of Creative Enterprise Centre, a regional capacity building centre whose…
Cape Town International Jazz Festival announces The Internet to complete line-up
The Cape Town International Jazz Festival (CTIJF) heralded its 18th year with a brilliantly edgy, instantly-appealing and musically broad line-up that will captivate jazz purists, world music fans, fusion lovers and soul nostalgics. Los Angeles-based,…
#RIP: Jazz singing great Al Jarreau dead at 76
Al Jarreau, the affable jazz singing great who reached new audiences by seamlessly merging styles and through television, died Sunday days after announcing his retirement. He was 76. The seven-time Grammy winner — a rare…
Jazz crosses borders with Kenyan and South African recording
Aaron Rimbui, the Kenyan jazz musician who’s been instrumental in reinvigorating and establishing a flourishing jazz scene in Kenya, is set to release a new collaboration with two award-winning South African musicians. Together with Herbie…
Grammy Award-winning Wouter Kellerman takes on #10Questions
“World Music that takes you places!” So says globe-trotting flutist and composer Wouter Kellerman, whom received a 2015 Grammy Award for his album Winds of Samsara collaboration with Indian composer and producer Ricky Kej. The…
Everything you need to know about the #JoyOfJazz festival
35 performances. Four stages. Three days. It’s almost that time of the year where South Africa’s oldest jazz festival invites some of the most iconic artists from around the world to perform, celebrate and bop to…
#JoyOfJazz: José James to perform at South Africa’s oldest jazz festival
Few jazz vocalists have managed to earn the respect and praises of the jazz community whilst successfully courting a cross-over R&B audience. Sometimes dubbed as a jazz singer for the hip-hop generation, New York City-based…
Gallery: Hugh Masekela thrills at Nairobi’s Safaricom Jazz Lounge
Jazz lovers were treated to an exceptional show on Friday as the globally acclaimed South African jazz maestro Hugh Masekela took the stage at the Safaricom Jazz Lounge in Nairobi, Kenya. In his first appearance at…