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

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 ...

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival  is now accepting craft applications for its 2026 event, set for April 23–May 3, ...

Nduduzo Makhathini, a South African jazz pianist and traditional healer, blends modern jazz with Zulu spirituality, creating ...

Discover why Johannesburg is Africa’s event and festival capital in 2025. Johannesburg has always been at the heart of South Africa. But right now, it is doing something bigger, it is claiming a title ...

South African jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim laughs when he remembers a gig he played shortly after he moved to America in 1965. “There was this club in New York and I suggested that I bring my trio,” ...

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

It is not uncommon for jazz artists to borrow from world music to enliven their pieces—adding a dash of spice as it were. It is even rarer (with Latin jazz being an exception) for musicians to dive ...

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 ...