KANSAS CITY, Mo. — There will be a special guest in the crowd Wednesday as Creative City KC marks International Jazz Day with the Celebrating the 90th Anniversary of the Count Basie Orchestra concert ...

The 2025 edition of International Jazz Day 2025 will be celebrated in more than 190 countries on 30 April, with Abu Dhabi selected as the Global Host City. Organized by UNESCO and the Herbie Hancock ...

THE VIRUS. WELL, TODAY MARKS INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY, A GLOBAL CELEBRATION OF ART FORM THAT HAS SHAPED CULTURES AROUND THE WORLD, AND MANY CONTRIBUTE ITS ROOTS THROUGH RIGHT HERE IN KANSAS CITY. THE ...

The 2024 edition of International Jazz Day will be celebrated in more than 190 countries on April 30. UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Herbie Hancock are pleased ...

The Scottsdale Jazz Festival will return on Saturday, April 26, 2025, at Scottsdale Civic Center. Now in its 14th year, the Scottsdale Jazz Festival aligns with UNESCO’s International Jazz Day, this ...

The beauty of jazz is that everyone is stepping into the unknown, but what was made clear from the International Jazz Festival in Abu Dhabi was that this was a show of unity. Celebrated jazz musician ...

April 30 is International Jazz Day, established by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO. While San Diego isn’t hosting official events this year, just across ...

If you dig jazz, a veritable community of Missouri musicians has a celebration planned with you in mind. Saxophonist Bobby Watson, a Kansas City musical institution unto himself, will lead the ...

Rochester, N.Y. (WHAM) — The sounds of jazz filled the air of the Flower City as night one of the Rochester International Jazz Festival gets underway on Friday. From high school bands to headliners, ...

I first proposed the idea for what would become International Jazz Day (30 April) in 2011, shortly after being named a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) ...

We get a glimpse of what we think we’re going to get from “International Jazz Day in Morocco” when a Tangier musician appears, cradles a three-stringed, round-necked guembri in his lap, and plays a ...

UNESCO AND HERBIE HANCOCK ANNOUNCE THE FIRST ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY ON APRIL 30 FEATURING ALL-STAR CONCERTS IN PARIS, NEW ORLEANS AND NEW YORK UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova and UNESCO ...