Jazz in Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan International Jazz Festival celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2021. It was founded by Tagir Zaripov, who also opened Central...
Year: 2020
Jazz in France
It has been said that France was the first country to take jazz seriously as an artform, before even America...
Django Reinhardt
Django Reinhardt (1910-1953) is almost certainly the most influential jazz artist to have come out of Europe, with a whole...
Tete Montoliou
Blind Catalan pianist Tete Montoliou (1933-1997) was a virtuoso performer, born in Barcelona in Catalonia. He began to learn the...
Amancio D’Silva
Amancio D'Silva (1936-1996) was born in Bombay to Goan parents. Keen to learn the guitar after hearing jazz on the...
Jean-Serge Essous
Jean Serge Essous (1935-2009) was born in Mossendjo in what was then French Equatorial Africa, today in the Republic of...
Salah Ragab
Drummer Salah Ragab (1935-2008) was born into a military family, in comfortable circumstances, the son of a pasha (an honorary...
Maurice El Medioni
Algerian-Jewish pianist, Maurice El Medioni (born 1928) was born in the port of Oran into a family of musicians. His...
Graeme Bell
When pianist Graeme Bell (1914-1912) retired in his early 90s, he was able to look back at a 70 year...
Jazz in Papua New Guinea
The country of Papua New Guinea, with its population of more than 8 million, maintains a jazz element in its...
