After an electrifying kick-off of the Cape Town International Jazz Festival’s 23rd celebration, we returned to the CTICC […]
Author: Al Clapper
In Review: Cape Town International Jazz Festival 2026 Day 1
As “Jazz Week” in the Mother City became a weekend, the great battle of the jazz festivals was […]
Benjamin Jephta’s Homecoming Revisited is a cross-generational who’s who on the SA jazz scene
It’s rare, specifically of jazz musicians and composers, to relisten to their older recordings and revisit their younger […]
In Review: CTIJF 2025 Day 2
After a jol and a half at Day 1 of #CTIJF2025 Chad and I deserved a very slow […]
In Review: CTIJF 2025 Day 1
My first assignment for Texx & the City — the assignment that kicked off my career as a […]
ZYO and Mathew Gold collab on new synth-laden Afrofuturistic single “Blue Eyes”
ZYO and Mathew Gold reunite to collaborate on “Blue Eyes” — a smooth dance floor banger that tugs […]
