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A comprehensive list of notable jazz festivals around the world, with historic and current events. Find out the location, year, notes and image of each festival, from Ann Arbor to Zürich.
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 ...
Learn about the history and activities of the Hot Club de France, a French organization of jazz fans founded in 1931. Discover how it promoted traditional jazz, swing, and blues, and its role in the bebop schism and the Quintette du Hot Club de France.
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Learn about the origins, development and influence of jazz music in France, from the 1920s to the present. Discover the famous French jazz artists, such as Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli and Jean-Luc Ponty, and the major jazz festivals in France.
Brad Mehldau is an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger who has led his own trio since the early 1990s. He has also experimented with other musical formats, such as electronics, orchestral pieces, and song cycles for classical singers.
The main stage under plane trees. The Charlie Jazz Festival is an annual music festival held every summer in Vitrolles, Provence, France.It was established in 1998 by Charlie Free, a not-for-profit jazz organization which runs jazz sessions every two weeks at Le Moulin à Jazz, a famous jazz club in France.
International Jazz Day is an annual celebration of jazz music's influence in promoting peace and intercultural dialogue, observed on April 30. It was initiated by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock and recognized by UNESCO and the UN in 2011 and 2012.