Each year, thousands of music lovers come together for the international Jazz festival in Cape Town, ranked among the top-ten best jazz festivals in the world. "This is my fourth or fifth year ...

Louis Tebugo Moholo-Moholo was born in St Monica’s Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa on 10 March 1940. He’d not have appreciated that introduction, once chastising an interviewer: Ah, no! My name is ...

Speaking exclusively to the Mail & Guardian through his manager and translator, Salif Keita is overjoyed to be returning to South Africa — a country he describes with deep, almost personal reverence. ...

The Grammy Awards recognize all sorts of rising artists, but the Grammys also spotlight styles or subgenres or entire fields of music that are breaking through by forming new award categories. This ...

The Fairest Cape is tuning up for a historic crescendo. South Africa will host a world-class gathering of global jazz greats, a weekend where the nation’s musical diversity, choreography and ...

Duke Ellington rejected it, Charles Mingus was ambivalent about it, and Wynton Marsalis is okay with it. For many African American musicians the word “jazz” is a double-edged term, sometimes ...

Professor of Global Jazz Studies and Music, Herb Alpert School of Music, University of California, Los Angeles One of the most influential artists in South Africa’s rich history of jazz is Kippie ...

From July through June 2026, the new season will showcase works by John Coltrane, the South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim and more. By Derrick Bryson Taylor Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 38th season ...

Experience the magic of the 23rd Cape Town International Jazz Festival 2026, where music and memory intertwine in a celebration of global sound, featuring unforgettable performances and poignant ...