Interview: Jazz Singer Ziza Muftic dazzles in her Shining Hour album and Life

Article on Jazz saxophonist/flautist Ivan Mazuze and album, ‘Ndzuti’

Article on Dinga Sikwebu and reflections on jazz

An interview: Jazz Pianist Zoe Molelekwa brings his “unconsciously South African” repertoire to Cape Town

Article on Jazz pianist Bokani Dyer and album release, World Music

An Interview and CD Review: Jazz Pianist Blake Hellaby blazes into “New Beginnings”

Article on women instrumentalists: Regina Carter, Nubya Garcia, and Lakecia Benjamin

Jazz in the Native Yards, a small Nonprofit Organisation established to provide spaces for jazz artists, traces its ancestral footprints to the 1960s when impromptu live jazz sessions took place every weekend in Cape Town’s townships and elsewhere. [See more under Overview]

CD reviews by artists from Denmark, China, Ivory Coast, Korea and U.S, released in 2020

Formal and informal learning programs started to flourish with more trained music teachers in High Schools and at Tertiary levels, as well as at community levels where social development and mental health issues among youth called them towards arts training as a respite from the social ills they lived with daily. Initiatives like Youth Music Programs, and various Cultural and Music Festivals held throughout the year, often with their appending Conferences, all provided learning and mentorships. [See artist & article lists under Overview]