27/03/2026
Were you at What is Jazz at .cpt
An article by Sabah at
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“What Is Jazz?” 🥳
On Sunday, 22 March, a bold new “mini” music festival titled What Is Jazz? arrives at the heart of
Cape Town in District Six at .cpt , a multi-purpose courtyard space.
The event is supported by the City of Cape
Town and the Goethe-Institut South Africa as well as sponsored by as well as — the event playfully and provocatively poses a question
to purists and newcomers alike: What is Jazz? 🤭
As the city enters what many now refer to as “Jazz Week”, with an influx of jazz tourists and a flurry
of programming, What Is Jazz? offers an alternative exploration—one rooted not in rigid genre
definitions, but in spirit.
The title functions as a rhetorical question, challenging notions of what qualifies as “jazz” and who gets to define it!
Read more via the link in my bio, and be sure to grab some tickets to a Sunday full of divine grooving 🙂↔️✨
