At 71 when most individuals are thinking of ways to slow down and kick back, Charles Lloyd has shifted to a higher gear and keeps going higher. To celebrate his 70th birthday in March of 2008, he released his first live quartet recording in over twenty-five years, “ Rabo de Nube,”

If you are looking for an album by a vocalist with a beautiful voice, accompanied by anambient jazz band to carry the melodious lyrics and make her sound good, then this album is definitely not for you.

Since its inception in 1992 the Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Festival (SBNYJF) has become one of the most significant jazz development programmes in the country, annually bringing together over 300 students and 40 teachers with nearly 60 professional jazz musicians and educators from diverse backgrounds, coming from across South Africa and the world.

Introducing Cape Town’s new Jazz Club, THE RAINBOW ROOM, featuring some of Cape Town’s top musicians supported by young up and coming musical talent

The phenomenal young drummer Kesivan Naidoo is Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz for 2009. He has made his presence felt strongly in South Africa over the past decade and he has begun to carve himself an international reputation.

When everywhere the talk is about cuts and scaling down in response to the recession, organisers of the Cape Town International Jazz Festival are going big. They are bringing to the festival which takes place during Easter (Saturday 03 and Sunday 04 April 2010) a doyen of jazz piano and multi-Grammy Award winner, McCoy Tyner.

Amanda Tiffin has made her name in Cape Town, South Africa as a versatile vocalist and pianist, performing any number of styles from jazz to rock.

Nobody on today’s contemporary urban jazz scene knows more about the power of perfect, timely partnerships—or what it takes to keep the #1 hits coming—than Rick Braun.

Every now and then, an artist creates a special project so rich in content, so joyous in emotion, so fresh and inspired, that it becomes almost impossible to find a title that fully embraces the range and heart of the project.

Jean Toots Thielemans was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1922 and immigrated to the USA in. He started playing accordion at age 3 and played the harmonica as a hobby. He won his first guitar in a bet. He got "Hooked" on Jazz during the German occupationof Brussels. Django Reinhardt was his first idol, with Charlie Parker being an early influence. He was nicknamed "Toots" after musicians Toots Mondello and Toots Camarata.