International Jazz Day

 

Eugenia Leon Band. Playa del Carmen Jazz Festival. November 2010. Credit: Mzuriana.

 April 30 is International Jazz Day. 

Oh, how lucky I have been to experience jazz on my travels around the world, whether physically or in spirit! A playlist here.

2010: Playa del Carmen: Homework, Massage, and All That Jazz

2011: Nazret, Ethiopia: Introduction and a Brush With Fame (Spoiler alert: Mahmoud Ahmed, super famous Ethiopian jazz musician ... and a scream at the end)

2011: Caucasus Georgia: Nino Katamadze

2015: Lafayette, Louisiana: Blackpot Festival: Djoukil, a gypsy jazz band from France here: 

2016: Washington D.C. Jazz Festival

DC Jazz Festival. June 2016. Credit: Mzuriana.

2016: Ethiopian jazz at Twins in Washington, D.C. 

 2016: Toronto Jazz Festival here (swing versus street) and here (KC and the Sunshine Band) and here (Jamison Ross) and here (Toronto Mass Choir) and here (Dione Taylor) and here (Jane Bunnet and Hilario Duran).

Dione Taylor and the Backsliderz, Toronto Jazz Festival. June 2016. Credit: Mzuriana.

2016: El Paso: Jazz at Sunset

2017: St. Louis: Early Days Jazz on a Sunday Afternoon

2018: St. Louis: Duke 'n Jazz

Duke Ellington tribute, Christopher Parrish Octet 3. St. Louis, MO. April 2018. Credit: Mzuriana.

 

2019: Las Cruces, New Mexico: Here and here and here. 

 

Jazz at Mom's Coffee in Las, Cruces, NM. February 2019. Credit: Mzuriana.

2019: Tucson: International Day of Jazz

2019: The Sunday jazz jams at Brother John's in Tucson, with an example here: