On this weekend's gig we're
fortunate enough to feature
two extremely capable members of the happening Cape Town Ska band the
Rudimentals, fresh from a wild weekend at Oppikoppi
-- Simon Bates on Tenor Sax and Jody
Engelbrecht on Trumpet.
As usual you can hear some great SA Big Band
Jazz including some of Hanepoot's arrangements of SA jazz classics
by the likes of Errol Dyers, Zakes Nkosi, Dollar Brand, Chris
McGregor, Hugh Masekela and originals composed for the Biggish
Band b
y Merton Barrow,
David Ledbetter, Douglas Armstrong, 'Hanepoot' and others. Be
prepared for Cape Town goema, Jo'burg marabi ann some trad big band
swing ..
The Great White Shark Festival is a new
event focused on highlight the plight of this magnificent beast
which has been around for 300 million
years (that is a 3 and 8 zeroes as in 30000000!) and
now in a matter of a century of industrialisation, man is
threatening it's existence ... more about the festival at www.whitesharkfestival.org
Some other Biggish Band gigs coming up:
-
Sept 8 -- the first of a
series of monthly Saturday Afternoon summer concerts in Wynberg -- details to
be confirmed
-
November 2 -- St Lukes Hospice Jazz in the Park,
Maynardville
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http://www.jazz.co.za/hbb/pressreleases/070815.htm
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