BWB TO HEADLINE 5TH EDITION OF SAFARICOM INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL

Safaricom will this year mark the 5^th anniversary of the Safaricom International Jazz Festival with a galactic celebration at the Kasarani Training Grounds on February 25.

Headlining the show will be the highly acclaimed American jazz trio BWB, which is comprised of guitarist Norman Brown, saxophonist Kirk Whalum and trumpeter Rick Braun. While this will be Braun’s Maiden visit to Kenya Grammy Award winners Whalum and Brown are no strangers to the jazz festival, having performed alongside Gerald Albright and Sheléa Frazier at the Safaricom Jazz Lounges in Nairobi and Mombasa in December 2016.

BWB is expected to perform a wide selection from its massively popular Human Nature album. The album was released in 2013 and earned the group great reviews for its adaptation and arrangement of some of pop legend Michael Jackson’s greatest hits, including eponymous track Human Nature, Billie Jean, Man in the Mirror and The Way You Make Me Feel, among others.

“The whole idea of the festival is to make jazz music more accessible and inclusive, and to use this to break down barriers and create opportunities for talented Kenyan artistes to play alongside international stars and appeal to a larger local audience,” said Bob Collymore, Safaricom CEO and the brains behind the jazz festival.

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