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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 ...
Jazz Calendar is a ballet created in 1968 by Frederick Ashton to the music of Richard Rodney Bennett. The ballet was first performed on 9 January 1968 by The Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, with designs by Derek Jarman. [1] The work was performed over 50 times up to 1979 by the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden but is not part ...
The Portland Jazz Festival, now known as the Biamp PDX Jazz Festival, is an annual multi-venue series of over 100 jazz events held during the month of February. [1] [2] Events are presented throughout Portland, Oregon in such venues as P5 Center for the Performing Arts, Jimmy Mak's (now closed), The Old Church, Classic Pianos, McMenamin's Al's Den, Aladdin Theater, Alberta Rose Theater ...
The Flynn announced the dates for the 2024 edition of the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival on Wednesday as well as the Grammy-winning performers who will open and close the five-day event.
Location (s) Berkeley, California, U.S. Years active. 1967–present. The Berkeley Jazz Festival is held once a year at the outdoors Hearst Greek Theatre on the University of California, Berkeley campus. The theatre overlooks the San Francisco Bay at Hearst & Gayley Road. The festival was started in 1967 by Darlene Chan. [1]
The Bix Fest is a three-day music festival with many traditional jazz bands attracted from around the world. It is held the first weekend of August, to commemorate the anniversary of Bix's passing on August 6, 1931. The fest has traditionally been held at several venues around Davenport, anchored by the LeClaire Bandshell on the banks of the ...
Jazz rap is a fusion subgenre of hip hop music and jazz, developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The lyrics are often based on political consciousness, Afrocentrism, and general positivism. 1980s ->. Jazz rock. The term "jazz-rock" (or "jazz/rock") is often used as a synonym for the term "jazz fusion". 1960s ->.
The Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival is an annual jazz festival, the largest west of the Mississippi River, that takes place in April on the campus of the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho. In 2007, the festival was awarded the National Medal of Arts , the nation’s most prestigious arts award.