The 8th Annual Cape Town International Jazz Festival,
affectionately known as Africa’s Grandest Gathering, promotes all genres
within jazz and jazz-related performances, bringing together a dazzling
bill of 40 local and international artists performing in five different
venues to a diverse audience. The annual free Community Concert takes
place on 29th March on Greenmarket Square.
Artists already confirmed include:
Soul-jazz diva Randy Crawford, jazz legend Joe Sample, South Africa's
own world famous vocal group, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Sibongile Khumalo
and Jack DeJohnette, Intercontinental with Danilo Perez, Jerome Harris,
Byron Wallen and Jason Yarde, The Caribbean Jazz Project feat. Paquito
D’Rivera, Dave Samuels and Andy Narell, Vivid Afrika, Concord Nkabinde,
Esther Miller feat. special guest Jeremy Pelt, Bev Scott-Brown, Bruce
Muirhead Quartet, Fethi Tabet, Shannon Mowday, Lira, Diego Amador,
Standard Bank National Youth Jazz band, Rudmentals, Nils Landgren, Hilton
Schilder, Bheki Khoza, Lee Konitz quartet, Stimela, Tortured Soul and
Gerri Allen Trio feat. Jimmy Cobb.
Randy Crawford's return to the Cape Town
International Jazz Festival stage will be welcomed by her many SA fans.
For more than three decades she has traversed a musical spectrum that
ranges from jazz and soul to R&B and pop. Her warm timbre, inventive,
emotional phrasing, and songs like 'Give Me the Night' and 'Almaz' have
won Crawford countless fans around the globe.
Joe Sample is a world famous jazz pianist and
composer who has entertained for more than four decades, first as a
founding member of the ground-breaking fusion ensemble, The Crusaders, and
since the late '70's, as a popular solo contemporary jazz artist.
Ladysmith Black Mambazo is the Grammy Award winning,
South African a cappella singing group that represents the traditional
culture of South Africa. The "isicathamiya" vocal group has fulfilled its
role as South Africa's cultural emissary at home and around the world with
enthusiasm and dignity. The group has recorded and performed with a long
list of international stars like Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Dolly Parton,
Ben Harper, The Wynans and George Clinton, and leader Joseph Shabalala and
his group will be warmly welcomed to the Festival stage.
Sibongile Khumalo is the acclaimed South African diva
who’s soulful and dynamic performances have enchanted diverse audiences
across South Africa and abroad. She interprets a variety of musical genres
with integrity and poise, moving effortlessly from traditional South
African and European styles to more jazzy melodies but all with her
trademark South African flavour.
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