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  2. Cape Town International Jazz Festival - Wikipedia

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    The Cape Town International Jazz Festival is an annual music festival held in Cape Town, South Africa. The first one was held in 2000 [1] to 2005 [2] and is recognized as the fourth largest jazz festival in the world [3] and the largest jazz festival on the African continent. [4] The festival was called the "Cape Town North Sea Jazz Festival ...

  3. Cape jazz - Wikipedia

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    Cape jazz. Cape jazz is a genre of jazz that is performed in the very southern part of Africa, the name being a reference to Cape Town, South Africa. Some writers say that Cape jazz began to emerge in 1959 with the formation of The Jazz Epistles, many of whom were from Cape Town, [1] including Abdullah Ibrahim, then known as Dollar Brand.

  4. List of jazz festivals - Wikipedia

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    Asbury Park Jazz Festival in Asbury Park [citation needed] Jersey City Jazz Festival in Jersey City [citation needed] OSPAC Jazz Festival in West Orange [74] James Moody Jazz Festival in Newark, New Jersey; Exit Zero Jazz Festival (Cape May, NJ) 2012–present, 2 times annually; New York. Albany Riverfront Jazz Festival in Albany [75]

  5. South African jazz - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of South African jazz musicians. [3] Abdullah Ibrahim – pianist and composer; formerly known as Dollar Brand. Allen Kwela – guitarist. Andile Yenana – pianist. Barney Rachabane – tenor saxophonist; deceased. Basil "Manenberg" Coetzee – saxophonist; deceased. Bheki Mseleku – piano, saxophone; deceased.

  6. Rashid Lombard - Wikipedia

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    In the mid 1990s he became station manager at Fine Music Radio, and then programming manager at P4 Smooth Jazz Radio. In 1998, Lombard approached the director of the North Sea Jazz Festival to stage a local festival in Cape Town. This was the start of the Cape Town International Jazz Festival, now in its 14th year. The Mandela Bay Music ...

  7. Abdullah Ibrahim - Wikipedia

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    Abdullah Ibrahim, previously known as Dollar Brand, is a South African pianist and composer born Adolph Johannes Brand on 9 October 1934.His music reflects many of the musical influences of his childhood in the multicultural port areas of Cape Town, ranging from traditional African songs to the gospel of the AME Church and Ragas, to more modern jazz and other Western styles.

  8. Freshlyground - Wikipedia

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    Freshlyground. Freshlyground was a band formed in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2002. Freshlyground is best known for writing, perform and playing the instrumentals of the afrofusion and soca single "Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)" alongside Colombian singer Shakira, which received worldwide recognition.

  9. Mannenberg - Wikipedia

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    Composer (s) Abdullah Ibrahim. Producer (s) Rashid Vally. " Mannenberg " is a Cape jazz song by South African musician Abdullah Ibrahim, first recorded in 1974. Driven into exile by the apartheid government, Ibrahim had been living in Europe and the United States during the 1960s and '70s, making brief visits to South Africa to record music.

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