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INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVALS

This is a list of notable jazz music festivals, broken down geographically. The festivals mentioned here should have at least some international recognition.

Morocco
Tanjazz

Asia
Beijing Jazz Festival, China
Miri International Jazz Festival, Malaysia, [1]
Genting International Jazz Festival, Malaysia, [www.genting.com.my]
Penang Jazz Festival, in Malaysia [2]
Bangkok Jazz Festival, in Thailand, [3]
Hua Hin Jazz Festival, in Thailand, [4]
Jazz Yatra Festival, in Mumbai, India
International Java Jazz Festival, in Jakarta, Indonesia
Jakarta International Jazz Festival - Jak.Jazz, in Jakarta, Indonesia
Jazzcares, in Bandung, Indonesia
Jazz Goes To Campus, in Jakarta, Indonesia
Mt. Fuji Jazz Festival, in Yamanashi, Japan
Live under the sky, in Tokyo, Japan
Ulsan Jazz Festival, in Ulsan, Republic of Korea
Jarasum International Jazz Festival, in Jarasum, Republic of Korea
Philippine International Jazz & Ethnic Arts Festival, Philippines
Jazz at the Red Sea in Eilat, Israel
Dubai International Jazz Festival, United Arab Emirates

Australia
Australian Jazz Festival, Canberra
Bellingen Jazz Festival
Bennetts Lane Jazz Festival, Melbourne
Manly Jazz Festival, Sydney
Merimbula Jazz Festival, NSW
Moruya Jazz Festival, NSW
Noosa Jazz Festival, QLD
Umbria Melbourne Jazz Festival, Melbourne
Wagga Wagga Jazz Festival, Wagga Wagga
Wangarratta Jazz Festival, Victoria
York Jazz Festival, York, Western Australia

Europe

Austria
Jazzfestival Saalfelden in Saalfelden www.jazzsaalfelden.com

Belgium
Blue Note Festival in Ghent
Gaume Jazz Festival in Rossignol
Brussels Jazz Marathon in Brussels
Nam In Jazz in Namur
Jazz A Liège in Liège
Spring Blues Festival in Ecaussinnes
Django A Liberchies in Liberchies
Festival de Jazz/Blues de Gouvy in Gouvy
Mons En Jazz in Mons
Jazz Hoeilaart in Hoeilaart
Jazz Middelheim in Antwerp

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sarajevo Jazz Festival, Sarajevo

Costa Rica
Costa Rica International Jazz Festival 2007, Costa Rica

Denmark
Copenhagen Jazz Festival in Copenhagen
Riverboat Jazz Festival in Silkeborg
Aarhus International Jazz Festival in Aarhus

Finland
April Jazz in Espoo
Baltic Jazz in Dalsbruk (Taalintehdas)
Jyväskylä Summer Jazz in Jyväskylä
Kaamosjazz in Inari
Pori Jazz in Pori

France
Jazz aux Remparts in Bayonne
Uzeste Musical in Uzeste
Jazz sous les pommiers in Coutances
Banlieues Bleues in Seine-Saint-Denis
Festival International Django Reinhardt in Samois sur Seine
JVC Jazz Festival in Paris
Paris Jazz Festival in the Bois de Vincennes
Sons d'hiver in Val-de-Marne
La Villette Jazz Festival in Paris
Nancy Jazz Pulsations in Nancy
Jazz in Marciac in Marciac [5]
Jazz sur son 31 in Toulouse
Tourcoing Jazz Festival in Tourcoing
Europa Jazz Festival in Le Mans
Musiques de Jazz et d'ailleurs in Amiens
Blues Passions Cognac in Cognac
Musiques Métisses in Angoulême
Jazz à Juan in Antibes
Nice Jazz Festival in Nice
Jazz à Vienne in Vienne
Reims Jazz Festival in Reims
Jazz en tête in Clermont-Ferrand [6]

Germany
Moers Festival in Moers

Ireland
Bray Jazz Festival in Bray, Co.Wicklow
Harvest Time Blues in Monaghan, Co.Monaghan

Italy
Umbria Jazz in Perugia

Lithuania
Vilnius Jazz in Vilnius
Vilnius City Jazz (formerly Vilnius Mama Jazz) in Vilnius
Kaunas Jazz in Kaunas

Malta
Malta Jazz Festival in Valletta ([7])

The Netherlands
North Sea Jazz Festival formerly in The Hague, now in Rotterdam
Jazz in Duketown in 's-Hertogenbosch
Amersfoort Jazz in Amersfoort
Rhine Town Jazz Festival in Wageningen

Norway
Moldejazz in Molde ([8])
Kongsberg Jazz Festival in Kongsberg ([9])
Nattjazz in Bergen ([10])
Sildajazz in Haugesund, Norway
Haugesunds jazz festival in Haugesund, Norway

Poland
Jazz Jamboree, Warsaw
Komeda Jazz Festival, Słupsk
Warsaw Summer Jazz Days, Warsaw
Jazz nad Odrą, Wrocław

Romania
Gărâna Jazz Festival, Gărâna

Serbia
Novi Sad Jazz Festival, Novi Sad

Spain
Festival de Jazz de Terrassa
Festival de Jazz de Barcelona
Festival de Jazz de Vitoria (Vitoria-Gasteiz)
Festival de Jazz de San Sebastian (Donostia-San Sebastian)
Festival de Jazz de Valencia
Festival de Jazz de Madrid

Sweden
Umeå Jazz Festival in Umeå

Switzerland
New Orleans Jazz Festival Ascona, Ascona
Lugano Jazz Festival, Lugano
Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux
Cully Jazz Festival, Cully

Turkey
Afyon Jazz Festival in Afyon
Ankara Jazz Festival in Ankara
Efes Pilsen Blues Festival in Ankara, Istanbul, Adana, İzmir, Bucharest (Romania)
Eskişehir Jazz Festival in Eskişehir
Istanbul International Jazz Festival in Istanbul ([11])
İzmir European Jazz Festival, İzmir
ODTU Jazz Days in Ankara

UK
Glenn Miller Festival Of Swing, Jazz & Jive!!, Clapham, Bedfordshire
Scarborough Jazz Festival ([12])
Royal Bank Glasgow Jazz Festival in Glasgow
Ealing Jazz Festival, Ealing, London
Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Cheltenham
Brecon Jazz Festival, Wales
Bath International Music Festival, Jazz Weekend. Bath.
London Jazz Festival
Nairn International Jazz Festival, Scotland
Whitley Bay International Jazz Festival, near Newcastle upon Tyne[13]
Keswick Jazz Festival, Lake District
Bude Jazz Festival, Cornwall

Ukraine
Koktebel Jazz Festival in Koktebel, Crimea ([14])

North America

Canada
Beaches International Jazz Festival in Toronto, Ontario
Festi Jazz International de Rimouski, Rimouski, Quebec
Guelph Jazz Festival in Guelph, Ontario
Jazz Winnipeg Festival in Winnipeg, Manitoba
Montreal International Jazz Festival in Montreal, Quebec
Ottawa Jazz Festival, in Ottawa, Ontario
Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival in Toronto, Ontario
Vancouver International Jazz Festival in Vancouver, British Columbia
Uptown Waterloo Jazz Festival in Waterloo, Ontario

Caribbean
Barbados Jazz Festival
Havana Jazz Festival, Havana
Saint Lucia Jazz Festival

United States
Alabama

Taste of Fourth Avenue Jazz Festival, sonsored by the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, Birmingham, Alabama
AJHoF Annual Student Jazz Festival, sponsored by the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, Birmingham, Alabama
W. C. Handy Music Festival, Florence, Alabama
Alaska

Sitka Jazz Festival, in Sitka, Alaska (sitkajazzfestival.com)
California

Berkeley Jazz Festival, Berkeley, California
Concord Jazz Festival, Concord, California
Monterey Jazz Festival in Monterey, California
Playboy Jazz Festival, Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, California
Sacramento Jazz Jubilee, Sacramento, California
San Francisco Blues Festival (http://www.sfblues.com)
San Francisco Jazz Festival, San Francisco, California
San Jose Jazz Festival, San Jose, California
Stanford Jazz Festival, Palo Alto, California
Connecticut

Hartford International Jazz Festival, Hartford, Connecticut
Litchfield Jazz Festival, Goshen, Connecticut
New Haven Jazz Festival, New Haven, Connecticut
Florida

Jazz on the Green, Fort Myers, Florida (jazzonthegreen.com)
Georgia

Atlanta Jazz Festival, Atlanta, Georgia
Savannah Jazz Festival, Savannah, Georgia
Savannah Music Festival, Savannah, Georgia
Idaho

Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, Moscow, Idaho
Sun Valley Swing'n'Dixie Jazz Jamboree, Sun Valley, Idaho (sunvalleyjazz.com)
Illinois

Chicago Jazz Festival, Chicago, Illinois
Indiana

Notre Dame Collegiate Jazz Festival, in Notre Dame, Indiana
Iowa

Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival, Davenport, Iowa
Louisiana

French Quarter Festival, in New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, in New Orleans, Louisiana
Satchmo Summer Fest, in New Orleans, Louisiana
Maryland

Silver Spring Jazz Festival, in Silver Spring, Maryland
Massachusetts

Tanglewood Jazz Festival, Tanglewood, Massachusetts
Michigan

Ford Detroit International Jazz Festival, Detroit, Michigan
Minnesota

Minnesota Sur Seine in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis, Minnesota and Saint Paul, Minnesota (surseine.com)
Twin Cities Hot Summer Jazz Festival, in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota (hotsummerjazz.com)
Missouri

Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival, Kansas City, Missouri
Scott Joplin International Ragtime Festival, Sedalia, Missouri
Nebraska

Omaha Blues, Jazz, & Gospel Festival in Omaha, Nebraska
Nevada

Reno Jazz Festival in Reno, Nevada
New Jersey

Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival, in Red Bank, New Jersey
New York

Albany Riverfront Jazz Festival, Albany, New York (albanyevents.org)
Freihofer's Jazz Festival [15] in Saratoga Springs, New York
Rochester International Jazz Festival, in Rochester, New York
Rhode Island

Newport Jazz Festival, in Newport, Rhode Island
Tennessee

Franklin Jazz Festival, Franklin, Tennessee
Watertown Jazz Festival, Watertown, Tennessee
Texas

Denton Arts and Jazz Festival, Denton, Texas
Utah

Park City Jazz Festival in Park City, Utah
Vermont

Burlington Discover Jazz Festival [16] in Burlington, Vermont
Washington

Earshot Jazz Festival, Seattle, Washington (earshot.org)
Wisconsin

Great River Jazz Fest, La Crosse, WI
Virginia

Hampton Jazz Festival [17], Hampton, Virginia

South America
Festival Internacional de Jazz de Punta del Este, Punta del Este, Uruguay
Festival Pró-Jazz, Juiz de Fora, Brazil
Suriname jazz festival, Paramaribo, Suriname

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Started by Wali Mutazammil. Last reply by Wali Mutazammil Mar. 10, 2008.

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Comment by Barry Barcock on August 26, 2009 at 6:55pm: Hi, my name is Barry. I research the jazz scene in Japan where, without any exaggeration, the jazz scene is HUGE. Over the following 8-weeks there are 8 different festivals happening in the Kansai area alone. I will be uploading some videos over the coming weeks. Check-out my page.

Comment by Ravn Hansen on February 20, 2009 at 2:49am: Hi Thanks for the add--i am happy to be a friend..But my Thoughts and love go to The Great Louie Bellson to day..84 years of Great Jazz drumming..and the father of dubble bass drums..Respect..We will never forget.. Louie Bellson

Comment by JAJA MATSIMELA on February 8, 2009 at 11:22pm: Peace Brother Wali my band JAJA MATSIMELA is very interested in playing the Live Jazz Festival in Abu Dhabi in 2009, and any other international festival. Our music has received substantial amount of airplay in Japan, China and Korea. www.jajamatsimela.com
Regards
Kwasi

Comment by Nailah on January 12, 2009 at 1:06pm: This is a wealth of information. Thanks so much for providing it in one place. You SWING!!!

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Comment by Evette on January 12, 2009 at 11:35am: Add the South Africa Jazz Festival in Johannesburg, S.A.

Comment by Wali Mutazammil on December 30, 2008 at 2:34pm: You are invited to conversations in supporting a "Live Jazz Festival" in one of the most beautiful and safe places in the world Abu Dhabi, UAE, which is the capitol of the United Arab Emirates. Now is the time, to declare your decisive role that we can be the difference in the world, and share America's music that is loved, embraced, and admired worldwide. We look forward to engaging in conversations with you and others, so we together can make this unforgettable Live Jazz Festival in Abu Dhabi a reality. I am scheduled to be in Abu Dhabi April 2009 for business. For further info, email Wali at mutazammil@hotmail.com.

Keeping Jazz Live,
Wali

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Comment by Wali Mutazammil on April 7, 2008 at 9:45pm: Maybe you can help. I am looking for conversations with jazz lovers, artists, supporters, etc. who want to be and make the difference as "Jazz Stars" in Abu Dhabi (Capitol of UAE) in being the first to inaugurate "Its All About Jazz Festival" in the UAE in 2009, and beyond. I am scheduled to returned to the UAE in April for further business conversations. Individuals may email me ASAP with their conversations at wali@tdgroupglobal.com. Continue to be and live your great adventures. I am thanking you in advance for your assistance and support.
Keeping Jazz Live!
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Dear Tamm E:

Just a note to tell you that it is nice to read about you!!!

You share so much great info about others and about the music, but nice to know that you are WAILIN' yourself and getting appreciation!!

Global Jazz Network is a really important way for all of us to keep hooked up and informed and to SLOWLY BUT SURELY SPREAD THE MESSAGE AND THE PHILOSOPHY of what Jazz is in its many different forms and what the styles are/is all about.

Just played for Paquito's honoring and received gold medal

John Faddis, save Brubeck, James moody and a bunch of KILLER YOUNG players and we all played and spoke about Paquito and jazz and all fine music

and Roberta Gamborini, who was excellent.

wish you had been there!

Through you, Donald Harrison hooked me up with Pittsburgh Jazz info and I feel like i am living there just reading about all the great happenings.

As Fall is here, I am back to my normal insane schedule, but wanted to write you back BEFORE The STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS goes into effect. I am my own secretary, so I am dedicated but SLOW!

And I can't fire myself as my own secretary or I might get hit with an Age Discrimination Lawsuit (in case I decided to sue myself for clerical incompetence).

As of this moment, a new documentary film is being made about me, to be released a few months after my 80th birthday, which is coming up next year Nov. 17, 2010. (12 months from now).

The film will end with the videoing of the big 80th birthday bash at Symphony Space in NYC and then have snippets of films from the past, with all kinds of fun stuff from the 50's thru today.
It will be called "David Amram: The First 80 Years"

Fortunately, I don't have to edit the hundreds of hours of footage or do new music the score, since the film maker, Larry Kraman is also the founder of Newport Classics recordings and knows all my symphonic as well as operatic, theater, film and jazz and world music work, so I am in good hands!!

The same people at Newport Classics Recordings are also making a Spoken Word series for I-Tunes, with me reading from my three books Vibrations, Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac and Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat.

And they are also recording some of my chamber music compositions and a new jazz record,
Next Spring my opera "12th Night", with libretto by Joe Papp (all words of Shakespeare), is having its eighth production and being FILMED!! Even most dead composers aren't that lucky!!!

This last five weeks I have appeared all over the country at concerts of my music, conducting and playing, doing spoken word with music, jazz, folk and world music festivals, film festivals and readings from my books.

Just the first week of October, I played Lowell Celebrates Kerouac festival in Lowell Mass, then the at midnight , following my last concert there , drove all night to Lagaurda Airport to catch the early Sunday mornng flight for the annual Farm Aid Concert in St Louis, where i played with Willie Nelson's band. The next morning (Monday the 5th , I flew bck to NYC in tme for my monthly concert at Cornelia Street in Greenwich Village.

The next night (Tuesday the 6th) the memorial at Symphony Space for Frank Mccourt, and the next day Wednesday the 7th) the celebration of the new authorized biography of Thelonious Monk with members of his family and musicians I have known since I first arrived in NYC in 1955!!

The 11th i flew off to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates,( i got at least get a few hours sleep) and tried to catch up on over 200 e-mails during the 13 hour flight, before arriving there and performing a concert of global music in conjunction with the score I composed for Teri McLuhan's new documentary feature film The Frontier Ghandi.

Then back in the USA in time to do programs centered around a performance of my Saxophone concerto Ode to Lord Buckley, in Loudoun Virginia ..

Then I went off to Toronto Nov 1st for a concert and appearance at the Diaspora Film Festival .

Now i am back at home hiding out composing and writing!

I am starting my fourth book "David Amram: The First 80 Years", (the same name as the new doc film being made about me), which will be finished at the end of next year and will end, like the film, with the monstro birthday bash concert for my Big 80... 12 months from now....(Nov 17 2010) in New York.

And every day, still finding time to continue composing a new orchestral work, having been doing it while on the run, and now every minute when I can hide out at the Farm in between travels.

And performing whenever possible with my three kids, each of whom have their own bands.

So as the BIG 80 approaches twelve months from now, (2010) while I may be still shy, I am not yet the retiring type.

Most of my ever-changing my schedule info. when i can get my elderly secretary (unfortunately myself) to type it up, is posted on my web page www.davidamram.com under Upcoming Events.

And my e-mail amramdavid@aol.com is always the best way to reach me as I carry my laptop with me everywhere, and Facebook, MySpace, etc., is hard to deal with and not always reliable!

You might find it fun to access an old performance of my 1971 Rondo a la Turca on the Internet for FREE!!!

The person who is conducting the Chicago Symphony and playing the middle eastern flute (who looks like my grandson) is actually a much younger looking me in 1977, recording for a PBS network TV show about my music. Pepper Adams and Jerry Dodgion are also playing.

In 1977, most of members of the Chicago Symphony who appear on the recording of this performance had never heard, much less ever played, very much music from the Middle East, and since I write everything out on paper accurately to indicate the way it should be played, that's what they were playing, and they actually began to sound like the Radio Beirut Orchestra, and suddenly as the piece went on, they started feeling something different than they had ever felt before, as they played.

It is really fun to watch their faces as they started getting ingo the old time magical groove that Middle eastern music creates and takes you into.

During the first few minutes of the piece, you can see the musicians all playing up a storm but looking as if they were thinking that I was an alien from another planet in outer space, and had brought some extra terrestrial music with me for them to play.

And then as the piece progresses, you can see, as well as hear, that by the end of the piece, the idiom of this music got them excited enough to be actually enjoying playing it!!

And playing it really well!

That's what music, like film, novels, poetry, painting, dance, language and good HOME COOKING does for all of us.

It takes you to that place from where it comes, and makes you feel that you now have a new home in a new part of the world.

I send cheers from that endless road and wish you joy and energy for all you do

David

Hi Tamm E!

I was just saying that you knocked this out of the park with TGJN. We have needed something like this for so long and I am telling my friends about this. I said that it is sort of like a myspace for jazz but it is actually so much more. This is real. The people here truly love jazz and we know people like that are not your average people.

I have felt for a long time that straight-ahead jazz has been slipping away from us. I have hope now that there will be a resurgence (or shall I say an insurgency:-) to bring this baby back full force!

You just knocked it out of the park. Thanks again.

xoxo,
Janie

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