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The Cape Town International Jazz Festival started in 2000 [1] [8] as part of the North Sea Jazz Festival. This was part of an arrangement that came about as a result of the partnership between espAfrika (a South African events management company founded by Rashid Lombard) and Mojo Concerts BV, the founders of the Dutch North Sea Jazz Festival. [2]
The Festival International de Jazz de Montréal (English: Montreal International Jazz Festival) is an annual jazz festival held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Montreal Jazz Fest holds the 2004 Guinness World Record as the world's largest jazz festival. Every year it features roughly 3,000 artists from 30-odd countries, more than 650 concerts ...
April 5 – Phil Nimmons, Canadian jazz clarinetist, 100 [34] April 7 – Joe Viera, German saxophonist and festival founder, 91 [35] May 7 – Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski, Polish jazz musician, composer and arranger, 88 [36] June 9 – Alex Riel, Danish jazz and rock drummer, 83 [37] August 3 – Shaun Martin, American jazz keyboardist from Snarky ...
Cape Town International Jazz Festival; N. National Youth Jazz Festival This page was last edited on 21 December 2019, at 09:40 (UTC). ...
A ton of free entertainment is available starting Friday, June 21, when the 2024 Rochester International Jazz Festival kicks off and runs through Saturday, June 29.. This year's event features 326 ...
An early use of jazz as an anti-apartheid tool was the production of a musical entitled King Kong. [2] Written as a social commentary on young black South Africans, much of the music was arranged and performed by famous South African jazz musicians, including all the members of the Jazz Epistles, minus bandleader Abdullah Ibrahim.
Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals, Earth, Wind & Fire, Fantasia and Big Freedia set to take the Jazz Fest […] The post Queen Latifah, Jon Batiste among 2024 New Orleans Jazz Fest headliners ...
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.