Jazz & Juice: Black carpets & old money energy at the Joy of Jazz launch!
By Zee:
Babes. If melodrama were a musical genre, then the 2025 Standard Bank Joy of Jazz launch was a full-blown opera, staged in a wine bar, catered with pastries, and wrapped in exactly one centimetre of black carpet.
Yes, you read that right. ONE. CENTIMETRE. A bathroom mat pretending to be a runway. Who signed off on that nonsense?
Let’s talk venue: The Artistry – Ma’am, more “hipster influencer hub” than “pan-African jazz sanctum.” All gloss, no groove. The jazz legends were perched awkwardly on bar stools, champagne flutes trembling in their hands as the aircon struggled for relevance. The mood? Confused. The lighting? Brutal. The vibe? A boozy Sunday brunch with sound problems. Honestly, jazz royalty deserves chandeliers, not cocktails in jam jars.
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