As part of activities to celebrate this year's International Jazz Day, as well as mark the 10th year anniversary of Nigeria's premiere jazz event, the Lagos International Jazz Festival (LIJF), Inspiro Productions this year's event to the late jazz icon Hugh Masekela, who recently passed. Described as the father of South African jazz, the master trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer and singer, died on January 23 in Johannesburg.
Though this year marked the 10th anniversary of the festival, unlike previous editions that had multiple stages, this year was limited to just one big stage.
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