 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.Although there are strong influences from the American jazz, the development of Cape Jazz ran in a similar way to the course of American jazz but in the early 20th century.