Cape Town International Jazz Festival
VERIFIED evidence grade — master store (canonical CSV)
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).
Relationships
- Cape Town — located in
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Sources
- https://capetownjazzfest.com/history (verification source · master store)
Evidence note (master store)
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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