The Buenos Aires Jazz Festival is a music festival first organized in its current form by the city government of Buenos Aires in 2002.
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The Buenos Aires Jazz Festival is a music festival first organized in its current form by the city government of Buenos Aires in 2002.
01 · What it is
Music
Vocal, percussive, or instrumental sound tradition carried by community performers.
02 · Where & name
Argentina
Placed on record in Argentina.
03 · How it is doing
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Documented in open cultural records, but no cited field assessment of its current vitality has been added here yet.
04 · Proof & reuse
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Chapter Takeaways
OverviewThe Buenos Aires Jazz Festival was inspired, in part, by the after-dinner "café concerts" popular in large Argentine cities during the 1960s and '70s.
Common Questions Answered on Record
What is Buenos Aires Jazz Festival in plain words?
The Buenos Aires Jazz Festival is a music festival first organized in its current form by the city government of Buenos Aires in 2002.
Where is Buenos Aires Jazz Festival practised or documented?
Sources on this page place Buenos Aires Jazz Festival in Argentina.
What is the current condition of Buenos Aires Jazz Festival today?
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The Buenos Aires Jazz Festival is a music festival first organized in its current form by the city government of Buenos Aires in 2002. The festival takes place in multiple venues, attracting around 36,000 spectators during each of its first few years and over 70,000 in 2012. 1
Overview
The Buenos Aires Jazz Festival was inspired, in part, by the after-dinner "café concerts" popular in large Argentine cities during the 1960s and '70s. This was followed by Carlos Inzillo's Jazzología, which he first organized in September 1984 and remains the oldest continuously-running jazz festival in Argentina.
Jazz festivals had been organized intermittently in Buenos Aires and a number of other Argentine cities, such as Rosario, La Plata and Avellaneda, during the 1990s. Defying conventional wisdom during the depths of a severe economic crisis, the city of Buenos Aires announced a Buenos Aires Jazz Festival in July 2002. This first event was held on August 6-20, and was free to the public. Featuring mostly local artists, notably Pablo Ziegler and Dino Saluzzi, it was held in three locations: Thelonious, Notorious, and The Casual Bar.
The event's success led to a second festival in April 2003, with the addition of the important San Martín Cultural Centre as a venue and with the introduction of paid ticket admission. U.S. jazz vocalist Jane Blackstone was among the 2003 festival's notable international guests. Since then, the event has attracted other internationally renowned jazz artists, among them Kenny Barron, Anthony Braxton, Michael Brecker, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ron Carter, Dave Douglas, David Gilmore, Herbie Hancock, Fred Hersch, Freddie Hubbard, Rosa Passos, Wayne Shorter, Ralph Towner, Chucho Valdés, Randy Weston, and Cassandra Wilson.
Local pianist Adrián Iaies has been the festival's artistic director since 2007. 1
The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Buenos Aires Jazz Festival”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1
Buenos Aires Jazz Festival is festival, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2
The source record links this tradition to 1 external register, which can be verified through the citation. 2