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The Festival International de Jazz de Montréal (English: Montreal International Jazz Festival) is an annual jazz festival held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Montreal Jazz Fest holds the 2004 Guinness World Record as the world's largest jazz festival. Every year it features roughly 3,000 artists from 30-odd countries, more than 650 concerts ...
International Jazz Day is an International Day declared by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in 2011 "to highlight jazz and its diplomatic role of uniting people in all corners of the globe." [1] It is celebrated annually on April 30. [2] The idea came from jazz pianist and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Herbie ...
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Paul Brown on bandstand in Bushnell Park, Hartford, CT, summer 1994. Paul Brown "PB" (March 6, 1934 – May 6, 2016), was an American jazz bassist. He was the founder of the Monday Night Jazz Series in Hartford, Connecticut, which was recognized by the Library of Congress as the oldest and longest-running free festival for jazz in the United States and featured jazz greats such as Cannonball ...
Recorded. July 27–28, 1965. Venue. Juan-Les-Pins Jazz Festival, Antibes, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. Genre. Jazz. Label. France's Concert. Live in Antibes is a live album by jazz musician John Coltrane that was released in 1988 on the France's Concert label.
Between the 1930s and 1950s, the biguine, a style of jazz from the French Caribbean was popular among dance orchestras. Lacking recognition at home, several biguine artists from Martinique moved to mainland France, where they achieved greater popularity in Paris, especially in the wake of the colonial exhibition in 1931.
Hot Club de France. The Hot Club de France (or HCF) is a French organization of jazz fans dedicated to the promotion of "traditional" jazz, swing, and blues. It was founded in 1931 in Paris, France, by five students of the Lycée Carnot. [1] In 1928, Jacques Bureaux, Hugues Panassié, Charles Delaunay, Jacques Auxenfans, and Elvin Dirat came ...
International Jazz Festivals Organization ( IJFO) is an umbrella organization including 15 leading jazz festivals worldwide. [1] IJFO sponsors an international jazz award presented in partnership with the International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE) at their annual conferences, and rewards upcoming talents in the genre of jazz. It was ...