STANDARD BANK NATIONAL YOUTH JAZZ BAND

The Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Band (SBNYJB) is a product of the Standard Bank Jazz Festival, which takes place in Grahamstown in July each year as part of the National Arts Festival.

The band members are chosen from young musicians from around South African who come to the festival, and each is a highly competent musician, normally with a budding professional pedigree already, with an average age in the band of 21. Each year, the conductor of the band is a South African musician of significant status and experience, as well as being a teacher and composer. The conductors are drawn from the wide array of the South African jazz. This year the conductor is Feya Faku, one of South Africa’s leading jazz trumpeters with extensive international experience and recording and performance credentials that include most of the top jazz players in the country.

The SBNYJB will be performing his compositions and arrangements as well as original compositions from the band members.

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