Today’s Feature Friday is the Alumni Big Band of 2017 performing “Vierd Blues” (composed by Miles Davis, arranged by Michael Mossman), conducted by Prof. Mike Rossi. This tune features special guest, Moreira Chonguiça, on alto saxophone.
In 2012 the Alumni Big Band made their first appearance at the Cape Town Big Band Jazz Festival. The big band showcases the Alumni from the College of Music, professional musicians as well as Jazz Educators and special guests, many of whom are international musicians.
Our new “Feature Friday” segment for the next few months will be showcasing the CTBBJF’s Alumni Big Band performances from 2012 to the present.
The CTBBJF is renowned as one of South Africa’s premier showcases of musical youthful talent. In 2020 we had to cancel our festival due to Covid-19. Since then we have moved online (YouTube, Instagram, Facebook) and have many festival highlights in store for you, which will be shared across these three platforms.
A huge thank you to all of our loyal sponsors, especially to The SAMRO Foundation for making our online project possible.
Thank you to our videographer, Tony Mittelmeyer from “Mittelmeyer DVD Productions”, for capturing our past festivals.Thank you to Carla Stokes, our social media manager, for editing and posting weekly festival highlights. Thank you to our fearless leader, Ann Barr, for running the CTBBJF annually, and for providing schools/colleges with this amazing platform for young musicians.
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