The Cape Town International Jazz Festival takes place over two jam-packed nights, on five simultaneous stages. Now in its sixteenth year, it also includes a number of ancillary events during festival ...

It’s time to put your jazz shoes on and your mouth trumpet in tune. Cape Town’s iconic "Jazzathon" is calling all music lovers to celebrate sound, rhythm, and pure Mother City energy. Known as “The ...

An invite to cover the 13th annual Cape Town Jazz Festival would have been reason enough to travel over 8,000 miles to South Africa. But when the invite, from South Africa Tourism, stretched to an ...

From Cape Town’s Waterfront to the imposing Table Mountains, the smooth sounds from great stars filled the air during the two-day jazz music extravaganza on April 3 and 4. Celebrating its 10th year, ...

The Cape Town International Jazz Festival, long considered the heartbeat of the city’s live-music calendar, is stepping into 2026 with a bold new look. With that comes a renewed sense of purpose.

In most cities, finding the hottest jazz is a matter of knowing which club to go to. But it’s not so simple in Cape Town. Although this city boasts its own jazz genre (the lilting, highly ...

The Cape Town International Jazz Festival (CTIJF) has a long and storied history dating back to the 2000s, and with this year’s edition being the 22nd, it is clear that through all the unexpected ...