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Cape Town International Jazz Festival

CTL-E-0068 · Event

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Combined Graph record U-01438 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-E-0068. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.

The Cape Town International Jazz Festival launched in 2000, is held annually in Cape Town, and is branded by the festival itself as 'Africa's Grandest Gathering'. Stored venue 'Cape Town' confirmed; the stored note 'Africa's grandest jazz gathering' matches the festival's own branding (tier 2 self-description, carried as branding, not as an independent ranking).

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The Cape Town International Jazz Festival launched in 2000, is held annually in Cape Town, and is branded by the festival itself as 'Africa's Grandest Gathering'. Stored venue 'Cape Town' confirmed; the stored note 'Africa's grandest jazz gathering' matches the festival's own branding (tier 2 self-description, carried as branding, not as an independent ranking).

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The Cape Town International Jazz Festival launched in 2000, is held annually in Cape Town, and is branded by the festival itself as 'Africa's Grandest Gathering'. Stored venue 'Cape Town' confirmed; the stored note 'Africa's grandest jazz gathering' matches the festival's own branding (tier 2 self-description, carried as branding, not as an independent ranking).

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