The Folks Who Feel Jazz were Melanie Scholtz, Marcus Wyatt on fluegel horn, Afrika Mkhize on piano, Jo Fougner Skaansar on bass and Jasper van Hulton on drums. In an interview earlier this year she was saying how much she was looking forward to working with Afrika Mkhize, once he started playing I knew why.

Melanie Scholtz is one of those artists you can keep seeing over and over again, much of the material is the same but the collaborations always include the most exciting jazz musicians. She is also the only artist to perform at all three of South Africa's major jazz festivals in 2010.

Darius Brubeck and Barney Rachabane came together again at the Standard Bank Jazz Festival in Grahamstown. The performance was like taking a gentle trip through some of Sout h Africa's rich jazz heritage.

Young, beautiful and talented, the Young Voices of Brandenburg charmed and delighted the audiences with two Standard Bank Jazz Festival performances.

The performance billed Danilo Pérez was a collaboration of note, top musicians, each from different countries and backgrounds coming together to share their creativity and technical excellence with the appreciative audience.

The Marcus Wyatt Quartet with Afrika Mkhize or was it the Marcus Wyatt Quintet, mmmm... I wonder! Whichever it was, they certainly packed the DSG Auditorium in Grahamstown to capacity.

African Vitality, a collaboration of some South African and European jazz heavyweights and some fresh blood in the form of an 18 year old tenor sax player who held his own.