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The Newport Jazz Festival is an annual American multi-day jazz music festival held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island. Elaine Lorillard established the festival in 1954, and she and husband Louis Lorillard financed it for many years. They hired George Wein to organize the first festival and bring jazz to Rhode Island.
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]
Designated NYCL. March 28, 1978 (interior) [3] April 23, 1985 (exterior) Radio City Music Hall is an entertainment venue and theater at 1260 Avenue of the Americas, within Rockefeller Center, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Nicknamed " The Showplace of the Nation ", it is the headquarters for the Rockettes.
October 18 – Franco Cerri, 95, Italian jazz guitarist. November 1 – Pat Martino, 77, American jazz guitarist. November 18 - Slide Hampton, 89, American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger. December 8 - Barry Harris, 91, American jazz pianist, bandleader, composer, arranger, and educator; See also. Jazz portal; List of 2021 albums
The Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival is an annual high school jazz festival and competition that takes place every May at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City. The festival is aimed at encouraging young musicians to play music by Duke Ellington and other jazz musicians.
The Philippine International Jazz & Arts Festival (colloquially as, P.I.Jazzfest) is a music festival that takes place in the Philippines.Formerly called the Philippine International Jazz & Ethnic Arts Festival, the event is organized by the PIJazz Foundation and presents international jazz musicians along with prominent Philippine jazz and world artists.
Established in 2002, the CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival Presented by M&T Bank takes place in June of each year, in Rochester, New York. It is owned and produced by RIJF, LLC, whose principals are John Nugent, Co-Producer and Artistic Director, and Marc Iacona, Co-Producer and Executive Director. The nine-day festival is held at 20 ...
November 25 is the 329th day of the year (330th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 36 days remain until the end of the year. Events [ edit ] Pre-1600 [ edit ]