Performers at this prestigious annual event came prepared to take the audience through our continent’s rich heritage of ...

Stretching from the highways leading to OR Tambo International Airport to the streets of Sandton, Soweto, and Carnival City, ...

Bucknell University professor Benjamin Barson is a finalist for the Museum of African American History (MAAH) Stone Book Award. Barson, a musician, composer and historian, is the author of “Brassroots ...

The Sandton Convention Centre was transformed into a jazz lover’s paradise for the first two days. One clear thing for the ...

Everyone knows how jazz, intertwined with the deeper sound of blues, emerged as the indomitable musical voice of black ...

More than 60 class artists are expected to entertain crowds at the Sandton Convention Centre over the three-day festival.

South Africa’s long-standing Jazz festival, the Standard Bank Joy of Jazz, has also partly been defined by migration in its ...

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 ...

A daring collaboration between saxophonist Josie McClure, pianist Eugene Joubert and composer Conrad Asman premieres in ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Trumpeter and singer Hugh Masekela, known as the "father of South African jazz" who used his music in the fight against apartheid, has died from prostate cancer, his family ...

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 ...