The inaugural Bayfront Jazz Festival takes place April 30-May 1 at Bayfront Park in Miami with pianist and bandleader Chucho Valdés on Friday, pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba and vocalist Aymée Nuviola on Saturday. The festival closes with jazz vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater and the eight-piece Memphis Soulphony.
International Jazz Day 2021: Fill up your knowledge of Jazz history at these museums ANI | Updated: Apr 30, 2021 23:39 IST
Washington [US], April 30 (ANI): Music lovers around the world celebrate International Jazz Day on April 30 every year. The day aims to spread the love for jazz worldwide and raise awareness about how it can bring people together by promoting social and cultural values of empathy and tolerance.
The day is organized by the UNESCO Director-General and Herbie Hancock, with help of the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz, located in Washington D.C.
Commonly known as America s classical music , jazz originated in New Orleans and quickly spread its influence to other parts of the world. To fill up on your knowledge of jazz history, follow along for a tour of some notable music museums around the United States.
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On Saturday, May 1, at 7 p.m., guests will enjoy a screening of Dan Pritzker’s film
Bolden on the grounds of the New Orleans Jazz Museum following a performance by Calvin Johnson and a Q&A session about the movie. Admission is $50 and includes an open bar by Seven Three Distilling Co and catering by Bywater Bakery.
Filmed in 2019, Bolden is based on the life of cornetist Buddy Bolden (1877–1931). One of the seminal figures in jazz history, Bolden left no surviving recordings, having been committed in 1907 at age 30 to the Louisiana State Insane Asylum, where he spent the rest of his life after a diagnosis of acute alcoholic psychosis.
Fusion Of Anatolian Music Traditions With Jazz
On eve of Global Jazz Day, director of prominent music festival says Istanbul has emerged as a jazz hub. As the world marks International Jazz Day on Friday amid restrictions to stem the spread of coronavirus, the director of a prominent Turkish music festival explains the link between Turkish metropolis Istanbul and jazz music. Istanbul and jazz have a very long relationship – in fact, Istanbul is among the first European cities when jazz came to Europe from America, back in the 1920s, Harun Izer, the director of Istanbul Jazz Festival- organized since 1994- told Anadolu Agency.