Nice Jazz Festival

Nice Jazz Festival

The Nice Jazz Festival, held annually since 1948 in Nice, on the French Riviera, is "the first jazz festival of international significance."[1] At the inaugural festival, Louis Armstrong and his All Stars were the headliners.[2][3] Frommer's calls it "the biggest, flashiest, and most prestigious jazz festival in Europe."[4]

Over the years, many artists, such as Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Charles, Ella Fitzgerald,[5] Helen Humes,[6] Herbie Hancock, and Miles Davis,[7] regularly appeared at the festival. After 1994, it saw a change of emphasis, with more world music and pop. But the festival's newest organizer, Vivian Sicnasi, has reinstated an eclectic mix of traditional and modern sounds with a international line-up; it remains "one of the Riviera's biggest annual events."[8]

Set in the vast Jardins de Cimiez (which contains a Roman amphitheatre), the event features several separate stages where groups perform simultaneously each evening, for eight days in July.[4]

References

  1. ^ Axelrod, Alan (1999). The Complete Idiot's Guide to Jazz. Alpha. p. 23. ISBN 9780028627311. http://books.google.com/books?id=6giucunGumUC. 
  2. ^ Shepherd, John (2003). Media, Industry and Society. Continuum International. p. 281. ISBN 9780826463210. http://books.google.com/books?id=0tz5YpijuksC. 
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin (1995). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Guinness. p. 3034. ISBN 9781561591763. http://books.google.com/books?id=5JlGAAAAMAAJ&pgis=1. 
  4. ^ a b Porter, Darwin; Danforth Prince (2007). Frommer's Provence & the Riviera. Frommer's. p. 26. ISBN 9780470138274. http://books.google.com/books?id=4k5u2w9lQSYC. 
  5. ^ Nicholson, Stuart (1993). Ella Fitzgerald: a biography of the first lady of jazz. Da Capo. p. 213. ISBN 9780306806421. http://books.google.com/books?id=oBXd2_-6_GoC. 
  6. ^ Smith, Jessie Carney; Shirelle Phelps (1996). Notable Black American women. Verlag für die Deutsche Wirtschaft. p. 310. ISBN 9780810391772. http://books.google.com/books?id=ssMBzqrUpjwC. 
  7. ^ Cole, George (2005). The Last Miles: The Music of Miles Davis, 1980-1991. U of Michigan P. p. 407. ISBN 9780472115013. http://books.google.com/books?id=ZcnGp0740TMC. 
  8. ^ Porter, Darwin; Danforth Prince, Cheryl A. Pientka (2007). France for Dummies. For Dummies. pp. 45–46. ISBN 9780470085813. http://books.google.com/books?id=PBU3LMq_wh8C. 

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