The North Sea Jazz Festival is an annual festival held each second weekend of July in the Netherlands at the Ahoy venue. It used to be in The Hague but since 2006 it has been held in Rotterdam. This is because the Statenhal where the festival was held before was demolished in 2006.
Biography
The founder of the three-day festival was Paul Acket, a businessman and jazz lover who had made fortune in the 1960s with his pop magazine publishing company. When Acket sold his company in 1975, he was able to start up and sponsor the North Sea Jazz Festival. Acket desired to present a great diversity of jazz music to the public, from American jazz to European avant-garde. In 1976 the first edition of the North Sea Jazz Festival took place. It was an immediate success: six stages, thirty hours of music and 300 performances drew over 9000 visitors. Many great jazz legends were presented, like Benny Goodman, Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz.
This is an incomplete list of notable jazz music festivals, broken down geographically. The festivals mentioned here should have at least some international recognition. This list generally excludes multi-genre festivals with only a partial focus on jazz, though such fusion festivals may be listed under individual subtopics of Jazz festivals by country.
Jazz has appeared in various festivals since the turn of the century, after the genre originated in African American communities during the late 19th and early 20th century. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on different national, regional, and local musical cultures, giving rise to many distinctive styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonicimprovisation. In the 1930s, swingbig bands, Kansas City jazz, and Gypsy jazz were the prominent styles. Bebop and cool jazz emerged in the 1940s, and the 1950s saw free jazz, hard bop, and modal jazz. Jazz-rock fusion appeared in the late 1960s and early 1970s, combining jazz improvisation with rock rhythms, electronic instruments and the highly amplified stage sound of rock, with large festivals exhibiting the sounds in response. In the early 1980s, a commercial form of jazz fusion called "smooth jazz" became successful, and other jazz styles include Afro-Cuban jazz and various fusion genres.
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Passengers are seen embarking a Winair plane at Hato Airport in Curacao... Passengers at risk of missing important events, from funerals to regional football tournaments, or even the CuraçaoNorth Sea JazzFestival at the end of August, face challenges.
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He said he was talking with promoters willing to invest millions of dollars to bring an event such as the North Sea JazzFestival from Curaçao to Florida, which he said would be lucrative for business ...
EzraCollective prevailed in the jazz category, and international artists Drake and 21 Savage, Asake, Valiant and Limoblaze all won their respective categories ...Best hip-hop act winner Little Simz performs at the North Sea jazz festival in July ... ... ... ... ... ... .
... from major jazz festivals to small clubs ... Do you prefer the intimacy of clubs like Ronnie Scott's or The Blue Note, or the energy brought forth at the big jazz festivals like Montreux or North Sea?.
" data-original-title title>Yuri Honing should be acknowledged as one of the pivotal voices in the history of the Netherland's world-renowned North Sea Jazz festival, described in 1990 by Jazz Times as "the best jazz festival in the world."
"Linda is a singular, deeply creative jazz master — solid as a rock, a heavy cat and beautiful musician," Richards said ... At the North Sea JazzFestival (in Holland), the wife of our saxophonist, GregWard, looked after our son.
