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Nice Jazz Festival. Coordinates: 43°41′47″N 7°16′08″E. Nice Jazz Festival. The Nice Jazz Festival ( / niːs /, NEESS ), held annually since 1948 in Nice, on the French Riviera, is "the first jazz festival of international significance." [1] At the inaugural festival, Louis Armstrong and his All Stars were the headliners.
The Paris Jazz Festival is the flagship of the Musical Summer at Parc Floral, a global event including young audience festival Pestacles and classical music festival Classique au Vert. The Paris Jazz Festival opens its doors every Saturday and Sunday afternoon in June and July. Concerts, workshops, attractions and exhibitions are accessible ...
Pages in category "Jazz festivals in France" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. ... Paris Jazz Festival; T. Trophées du Sunside
Jazz à Juan is an annual jazz festival in Juan-les-Pins, Antibes, France. New Orleans , Louisiana, widely recognized as the "Birthplace of Jazz," is a sister city, and as a result, carnival festivities in Juan-les-Pins, including both local and New Orleans jazz bands parading through the streets, have served for years to embody that connection.
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.
Jazz à Vienne is a jazz festival in Vienne, Isère, near Lyon, France . The festival has been held since 6 July 1981 in the months of June and July for two weeks. Every evening during the festival, there are concerts in the ancient Roman theater of Vienne. Among the performers there have been musicians such as Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Michel ...
The Festival Django Reinhardt is a Gypsy jazz music festival held during late June or early July at Samois-sur-Seine, France, and, since 2017, in the grounds of the nearby Château de Fontainebleau. [1] It began as a single evening festival in 1968, but in 1983, became an annual week-long event commemorating Django Reinhardt and his music.
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 together to listen to ...