2013/05/06
Hot soul youthful trilogy for the Road to Standard Bank Joy of Jazz

Winter has nothing on the June 8 Road to Standard Bank Joy of Jazz edition at Gold Reef City’s The Lyric Theatre. It’s a hot soul trilogy of the fiercest funk, afro-soul and R & B currently around.
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2013/04/17
Musa Manzini is back with a bang

Funky bass guitarist Musa Manzini is back on the live stage with a bang and you can see him, and upcoming souls and jazz singer Ayanda Khumalo, at the next Road to Standard Bank Joy of Jazz on 5 May at the World of Yamaha.
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People with a finer taste for music are set to get their fix…

2013/03/01
The Road to Standard Bank Road to Joy of Jazz kicks off on Saturday, 6 April at the Lyric Theatre at Gold Reef City with a show featuring soul man Frank McComb and hot band The Muffinz.

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Pigeon jazz in the city. Seriously.

2012/11/07
What a fun ad this must have been to shoot: enticing pigeons onto a full set of jazz instruments. And what a surprise the outcome was!

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Your foot taps... Your head nods... Your shoulders begin to move.

2012/11/06
The thing about watching good jazz, live, is that before you know it, the music inhabits you. You don’t notice it happening. You don’t feel it sinking deep into your pores as the sounds roll over you. You don’t notice how its rhythm attaches to your pulse, or how your breathing aligns to its beat.

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You may also want to watch:
Joy of Jazz 2012 Launch
Thandiswa Mazwai Interview
Manu Katché at Standard Bank Joy of Jazz 2012
Joburg Pigeon Jazz 2012
Earl Klugh rocking Joy of Jazz 2012

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African Jazz Pioneers
Hellfire

Standard Bank Arts Department of Art and Culture T-Musicman
Standard Bank Arts Department of Art and Culture T-Musicman

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