Top Cape Piano players for new album
Press Release 13/8/2018 Mountain Records have issued a number of Cape Jazz albums over the years, in fact they could well be the biggest supporters of the genre on any record label. Releases by Robbie Jansen, Basil Coetzee, Tony Schilder, Jonathan Butler and many other jazz artists have been on the Mountain label. A number of the releases have been nominated for industry awards and were the records that cemented the artist concerned as premier players in the SA Jazz scene. One of the most commercially successful records on the label was the album issued in 1992 simply called Cape Jazz. The album collected examples of recordings made by the label going back to 1980 which had strong rhythmic and melodic characteristics that both Jansen and Coetzee identified as, Cape Jazz. Since the first issue there have been 3 new volumes in the series. Each had a particular theme but all featured the genre that is today well established as the Jazz of the Cape. Now the 5th edition is