Cape Jazz Band Project

06/12/18 - PRESS RELEASE This post is for media professionals and may only be re-published under the names of media professionals sampled by MOUNTAIN RECORDS with promotional samples of the CD album, CAPE JAZZ PIANO. We hope you enjoyed the sample.  Please feel free to email  - mountrec@gmail.com with any questions you may have. I know its crazy in today's music market but I decided to head back to the studio in April this year to add another chapter to the so far four part series of releases under the banner Cape Jazz.  The album features some of the pioneers and some of the young star jazz pianists from Cape Town. Our sister firm,  Songwrights Publishers , (publishers of the music of Basil Coetzee, Jonathan Butler, Robbie Jansen, Tony, Chris and Hilton Schilder, Winston Mankunku and many other Cape composers) have put up the funds to record and mix the album. To my surprise, while I have had a lot of good feedback to the first press announcement of th...

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 editio...