Cape-Jazz

Cape Jazz is a genre of jazz, similar to the South African Marabi, but has a larger proportion of free improvisation. In contrast to Marabi where the piano is the dominant instrument, commonly used instruments in the Cape Jazz, which can also be used in street parades and especially in the Kwelamusik how brass instruments, banjos, guitars and percussion instruments.

The name goes back to Cape Town (English Cape Town ). The leading musicians of this style were initially Abdullah Ibrahim and Basil Coetzee and Robbie saxophonists Jansen. These musicians, along with bassist Paul Michaels, drummer Monty Weber and saxophonist Morris Goldberg, took in 1974 the Cape jazz piece man on mountain. Other musicians who are counted for this genre, are Bheki Mseleku, Errol Dyers, Hilton Schilder, Mac McKenzie, Duke and Ezra Ngcukana, McCoy Mrubata and Winston Mankunku.

The Cape Jazz derives mainly on the folk songs of the inhabitants of the Western Cape. The music producer (Patrick ) Lee Thorp, who acted in a certain distinct style of this musician very early, made in the 1990s with several samplers to the spread earned this jazz genre.

Every year on January 2, a street carnival held, was rehearsed for several months ( in Afrikaans: Tweede Nuwe Jaar ). The artist, also known as meatballs, dress and make-up along the lines of minstrel shows in New Orleans and combine this elevator with African and European music. Sometimes the term Goema or Ghoema Jazz is used for the Cape jazz.