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Cape jazz (more often written Cape Jazz) is a genre of jazz that is performed in the very southern part of Africa the name being a reference to Cape Town South Africa. Cape Jazz is similar to the popular music style known as marabi though more improvisational in character. Where marabi is a piano jazz style Cape Jazz in the beginning featured (though not exclusively) instruments that can be carried in a street parade such as brass instruments banjos guitars and percussion instruments.