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First time. April 30, 2012. Related to. Jazz. 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]
Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM) is a music festival held every April in Canada and the United States, in honor of jazz as an early American art form. JAM was created in 2001 by John Edward Hasse, curator of the Smithsonian 's National Museum of American History. [1] It became a national extension of the original Jazz Awareness Month created by ...
In 2016, Bowers was invited to perform at The White House for the International Jazz Day Concert hosted by President Barack and First Lady Michelle Obama. [20] In 2017, Bowers worked on the documentary Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You and the film Little Boxes, as well as the television programs Religion of Sports and Dear White People.
The National Jazz Archive holds more than 4,000 reference books, specialist periodicals and bulletins. It also tells the story of jazz and blues in the UK through photographs, printed articles, memorabilia, artworks and personal papers. [3] The archive has built up a collection of books on jazz, blues, popular music and dance. Books date from ...
This is a timeline documenting jazz events in the year 2016.. Kamasi Washington performing at the 2016 Coachella event GoGo Penguin performing at a concert in Vienna, Austria Abdullah Ibrahim at the Oslo Jazzfestival Tord Gustavsen with Simin Tander 2016 at Cosmopolite, Oslo, Norway Tomasz Stanko 2016 at Cosmopolite, Oslo, Norway Allan Harris 2016 at Cosmopolite, Oslo, Norway Knut Reiersrud ...
Trombone, cello. Years active. 1950s–2016. David Nathaniel Baker Jr. (December 21, 1931 – March 26, 2016) was an American jazz composer, conductor, and musician from Indianapolis, as well as a professor of jazz studies at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Baker is best known as an educator and founder of the jazz studies program.
Blackstar (stylised as ★) [1] is the 26th and final studio album by the English musician David Bowie.Released on 8 January 2016, Bowie's 69th birthday, the album was recorded in secret in New York City with his longtime co-producer Tony Visconti and a group of local jazz musicians: Donny McCaslin, Jason Lindner, Tim Lefebvre and Mark Guiliana.
Valentin was born to Puerto Rican parents in The Bronx in New York City. He attended The High School of Music & Art. [2] He learned percussion at an early age, and by 10 was playing conga and timbales professionally. [3][1] When he was 12, he began to practice the flute so he could get to know a girl in school who played the flute, Irene Cathcart.