Standard Bank Jazz Fest – Ticket Giveaway!
WIN WIN WIN!
2 double tickets to Guy Buttery
2 double tickets to Benjamin Jephta
3 doubles to James Morrison Quartet & Festival Big Band
To win, e-mail jane@weekendspecial.co.za with ‘JAZZ WIN’ in the subject line by Wed, 28 June, 2017 at 2pm. State concert preference – Buttery, Jephta or Morrison gigs, and include your name, cell number and email address.
About the festival
The Standard Bank Jazz Festival is celebrating two decades of an incredible jazz festival that for 10 days every year turns Grahamstown into “Jazztown” during the National Arts Festival. Its 20th anniversary edition from 29 June to 8 July, 2017 features over 100 musicians from 12 countries across a diverse range of styles and collaborations.
Included in the line-up are one of the world’s premier multi instrumentalists – the Australian James Morrison Quintet, along with Andy Narrel (US), Judith Sephuma, The Soil, Zinzi Makeba Lee and Africa Mkhize, Yaron Herman & Ziv Ravitz, Jimmy Nevis, Marcus Wyatt’s Bomb Shelter Beast, Shane Cooper, Kyle Shepherd, Thandi Ntuli, Desmond and The Tutus, The Wizards (Jeroen van Vliet and Anton Goudsmit from Netherlands performing with Marius Fransman, Kesivan Naidoo and Carlo Mombelli)
Show info:
Guy Buttery Trio
Guitarist Guy Buttery, bass extraordinaire Shane Cooper and multi-instrumental percussionist Ronan Skillen team up for a unique collaboration. Buttery enjoys invitations from all over the globe and the USA, UK, Australia, France, Brazil, and Italy have all welcomed him back year after year. Cooper’s debut album, Oscillations, won the 2014 SAMA for Best Jazz Album of the year the year after he received the highly prestigious Standard Bank Young Artist Award. Ronan Skillen has featured in musical genres across the board, from classical, rock and folk to electro, jazz, world music and hip-hop and can be regularly heard performing on recordings and film scores in South Africa, Switzerland, Holland, Lithuania, Kenya, Madagascar, the UK and India. Expect a superb musical chemistry.
Guy Buttery (guitar), Shane Cooper (bass), Ronan Skillen (percussion)
DSG Hall
Sunday, 2 July, 2017, 7.30pm
Value of double ticket set: R180
Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz I – Benjamin Jephta Sextet
This band has been together since Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz 2017 Benjamin Jephta recorded his debut album Homecoming in 2014. In fact, this ensemble is a prime reason for his receipt of this prestigious award – if a 22-year-old bassist can command such musical presence that some of the country’s leading jazz innovators are prepared to “play in his band”, there must be something special coming through. Jephta has performed since 14 with various orchestras and ensembles in Africa, Europe and Asia, and is a veteran of Grahamstown, having attended the Jazz Festival since he was 15 and been selected for the Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Band three times. His sound is rooted in church and South African music and he hopes that, with every performance, a listener is given a musical biography of his life while sending them on a journey of hope.
Benjamin Jephta (bass), Sisonke Xonti (sax), Marcus Wyatt (trumpet), Keenan Ahrends (guitar), Kyle Shepherd (piano), Sphelelo Mazibuko (drums)
DSG Hall
Tuesday, 4 July, 2017, 7.30pm
Value of double ticket set: R180
James Morrison Quartet (AU) & Festival Big Band
Australia’s greatest jazz ambassador entertains us a second time with his quartet, this time concluding his set with his speciality – Big Band jazz. Not only is this Big Band a collection of some of South Africa’s top jazz musicians (led by Fredrik Noren, leader of the Stockholm Jazz Orchestra) but it is also a tribute to the impact of 25 years of the Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Festival – every South African member of the band (with three older exceptions) was a member at some stage of the Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Band!
James Morrison (trumpet – AU), William Morrison (guitar – AU), Harry Morrison (bass – AU), Patrick Danao (drums – AU)+ Sax: Shannon Mowday, Justin Bellairs, Marc de Kock, Sisonke Xonti, Mike Rossi; Trumpet: Fredrik Noren (SE), Marcus Wyatt, Robin Kock, Sakhile Simani, Marco Maritz; Trombone: Andreas Rotevatn (NO), Justin Sasman, Kelly Bell, Murray Buitendag; Piano: Bokani Dyer
DSG Hall
Thursday 6 July, 2017, 7.30pm
Value of set of double tickets: R260
What: Standard Bank Jazz Festival Weekend Special ticket giveaway
For the full program: www.standardbank.com/naf
Social media: www.facebook.com/standardbankarts, Twitter: @standardbankart #Jazztown #NAF17
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