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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 ...
It encompasses a variety of traditional jazz forms and devices, from twelve-bar blues (in Friday's Child) to a fast jazz waltz (in Thursday's Child). Written "for 12 instruments", the scoring is flute, alto-, tenor-, and baritone saxophone, horn, two trumpets, bassoon, trombone, drums, piano, bass. [6] The music is dedicated to the singer Jean ...
John Surman: John Surman. McCoy Tyner: Tender Moments. Kenny Wheeler: Windmill Tilter. Gary Bartz: Another Earth. Pat Martino: Baiyina (The Clear Evidence) Charles Tolliver: Paper Man. Herbie Hancock: Speak Like a Child. Miles Davis: Miles in the Sky. Hugh Masekela: The Lasting Impression of Hugh Masekela.
Jazz at Lincoln Center is part of Lincoln Center in New York City. The organization was founded in 1987 and opened at the then-Time Warner Center (now the Deutsche Bank Center) in October 2004. Wynton Marsalis is the artistic director and the leader of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. The center hosts performances by the orchestra and by ...
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1993. Events. April. 10 – The 20th Vossajazz started in Voss, Norway (April 10–12). [1] June
June. 9 – The 2nd Moers Festival started in Moers, Germany (June 9 – 11). [2] 29. The 20th Newport Jazz Festival started in New York, New York for its second year there. (June 29 – July 8). [3] The 7th Montreux Jazz Festival started in Montreux, Switzerland (June 29 – July 15). [4]
Art Ensemble of Chicago: Reese and the Smooth Ones. Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre: Humility in the Light of the Creator. Charlie Haden: Liberation Music Orchestra. Dollar Brand: African Piano. Gunter Hampel: The 8th of July 1969. Roland Kirk: Rahsaan Rahsaan. Pharoah Sanders: Jewels of Thought.