Cape jazz is a genre of jazz that is performed in the very southern part of Africa, the name being a reference to Cape Town, South Africa. Some writers...
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The Cape Town International Jazz Festival is an annual music festival held in Cape Town, South Africa. The first one was held in 2000 to 2005 and is recognized...
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Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its...
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subgenres of jazz music. Jazz portal Cook, Richard (2005). Richard Cook's Jazz Encyclopedia. London: Penguin. p. 2. ISBN 0-141-00646-3. "Acid jazz (genre)"...
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List of music genres and styles (section Jazz)
Avant-garde jazz Bebop Big band Boogie-woogie Bossa nova Brazilian jazz British dance band Cape jazz Chamber jazz Continental jazz Cool jazz Crossover jazz Dixieland...
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The origin of the word jazz is one of the most sought-after etymologies in modern American English. Interest in the word – named the Word of the Twentieth...
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Trad jazz, short for "traditional jazz", is a form of jazz in the United States and Britain that flourished from the 1930s to 1960s, based on the earlier...
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Jazz standards are musical compositions that are widely known, performed and recorded by jazz artists as part of the genre's musical repertoire. This...
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Abdullah Ibrahim (category Musicians from Cape Town)
multicultural port areas of Cape Town, ranging from traditional African songs to the gospel of the AME Church and Ragas, to more modern jazz and other Western styles...
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Bebop (redirect from Modern Jazz)
Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States. The style features compositions characterized by a fast tempo...
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jazz styles ranging from 1910s-style Dixieland jazz to 1970s-era jazz fusion and 1980s-era Latin jazz. The techniques and instrumentation of this type...
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This is a list of jazz musicians by instrument based on existing articles on Wikipedia. Do not enter names that lack articles. Do not enter names that...
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Western Cape. The city is part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality. The city is known for its harbour, its natural setting in the Cape Floristic...
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"Mannenberg" is a Cape jazz song by South African musician Abdullah Ibrahim, first recorded in 1974. Driven into exile by the apartheid government, Ibrahim...
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is a list of notable jazz guitar players, including guitarists from related jazz genres such as Western swing, Latin jazz, and jazz fusion. For an article...
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hand to the American jazz scene. One of the most important subgenres of jazz in the region is Cape Jazz. The music originates from Cape Town and surrounding...
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Daar kom die Alibama (category Jazz songs)
English: "There comes the Alibama") is a traditional Afrikaans song and Cape jazz song. According to some sources, the song's history dates back to about...
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Chris McGregor (category Musicians from Cape Town)
African jazz pianist, bandleader and composer born in Somerset West, South Africa. McGregor grew up in the then Transkei (now part of the Eastern Cape Province)...
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District Six (redirect from District Six, Cape Town)
Six (Afrikaans: Distrik Ses) is a former inner-city residential area in Cape Town, South Africa. In 1966, the apartheid government (the National Party)...
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Post-bop (category Jazz genres)
Post-bop is a jazz term with several possible definitions and usages. It has been variously defined as a musical period, a musical genre, a musical style...
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descriptive terms such as "new wave" and "smooth jazz" (not to be confused with new wave and smooth jazz genres). The origins of plugg music are traced...
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Goema (category Jazz instruments)
Ghomma and Gomma, is a type of hand drum used in the Cape Minstrel Carnival and in Cape Jazz in Cape Town. The word has also come to describe a hybrid musical...
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emigration from Cape Verde. Today, more Cabo Verdeans live abroad than in Cape Verde itself. The country with the largest number of Cape Verdeans living...
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Basil Coetzee (category Musicians from Cape Town)
sound of the group The Pacific Express inspiring many younger cape jazz musicians in Cape Town. He is probably best known for his recording work with Abdullah...
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Cape Coloureds (Afrikaans: Kaapse Kleurlinge) are a South African group of multiracial people who are from the Cape region in South Africa which consists...
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Morris Goldberg (category Musicians from Cape Town)
the early pioneers of Cape Jazz, along with Dollar Brand, Merton Barrow, Winston Mankunku Ngozi and Chris McGregor. Born in Cape Town, Goldberg grew up...
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The Cape Verdean Blues is a 1966 album by a jazz quintet led by pianist Horace Silver. The quintet is augmented on the last three tracks on the album by...
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Kaapse Klopse (redirect from Cape Town Minstrel)
officially named the Cape Town Minstrel Carnival, is a traditionally Cape coloured minstrel festival that takes place annually on 2 January in Cape Town, South...
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Cape May (sometimes Cape May City) is a city and seaside resort located at the southern tip of Cape May Peninsula in Cape May County in the U.S. state...
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