Intention
The intention of the festival is to develop South African jazz by: 1) providing educational opportunities for young players. 2) encouraging artistic integrity and creativity on the Main Stage. 3) creating a forum for South African musicians to network with peers from around the country and with foreign musicians. 4) providing audiences with interesting, quality jazz.
The festival lasts nearly a week, incorporating jazz performance, rehearsals, workshops, lectures, networking and an opportunity for South Africa’s future jazz stars to interact personally and musically with their peers and other performers.
The festival has hosted many of South Africa’s leading jazz musicians over the past 16 years, as well as musicians and teachers from Argentina, Australia, Austria, Britain, Canada, Costa Rica, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Mexico, Mozambique, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, the US and Zimbabwe.
South African jazz students audition for places in the Standard Bank National Schools Big Band and the National Youth Jazz Band (NYJB). The NYJB performs regularly at festivals around South Africa—Grahamstown, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban—and has performed in New York, Sweden and the North Sea Jazz Festival, the Netherlands.
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