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    Beat the blues with smokin’ jazz

    Busisiwe HohoBy Busisiwe HohoJune 17, 2010No Comments2 Mins Read
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    The 36th National Arts Festival is again hosting The Standard Bank Jazz Festival with a great lineup sure to beat the winter blues.
     

    The 36th National Arts Festival is again hosting The Standard Bank Jazz Festival with a great lineup sure to beat the winter blues.
     

    Directed by Alan Webster, the Jazz Festival promises “excellent performances to start and close the fest” and includes an array of both local and international acts.

    Five previous and present winners of the Standard Bank Young Artist Awards will be playing with the Standard Bank Young Artist Quintet, as well as with Reflections in Reverence and Remembrance, on 30 June and 1 July.

    The Eastern Cape plays a critical role in the growth and development of a specifically South African style jazz.

    Jazz has served as the biggest channel for the developing styles of early township music in Eastern Cape
    and in the rest of South Africa throughout the 20th century and beyond.

    With a rich and star-filled history, the province is home to countless leading musicians of the genre, many of whom will be playing at the Festival.

    Among them is the Eastern Cape All Stars, who are known to play a combination of their own compositions in addition to paying tribute to the music these Eastern Cape musicians and composers have created over the decades.

    Along with these musical sensations, Tribe, one of South Africa’s most culturally diverse and intense jazz bands, will be on stage on 2 and 3 July.

    Its members have collected a mass of both individual awards and accolades, although as a group, the sum is undoubtedly even greater than its parts and should promise an outstanding, and exciting show.

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