International Jazz Day is a Global Day which is affirmed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in 2011. The day is celebrated every year on April 30 in order “to highlight jazz and its diplomatic role of uniting people in all corners of the globe.” Happy May Day Quotes
International Jazz Day 2021, 30 April
The concept came from jazz pianist as well as UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Herbie Hancock. Jazz Day is headed by Hancock as well as the UNESCO Director-General. The celebration is documented on the calendars of UNESCO and the United Nations.
International Jazz Day of 2021 Edition Celebration
UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay, as well as UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Herbie Hancock, has already declared the programme for International Jazz Day of 2021 edition, which is going to be launched in Australia and it will be celebrated in more than 190 countries all around the globe. Each year the celebrations are crowned by an All-Star Global Concert presenting the major names in modern jazz.
On 29 and 30 April, wide-ranging jazz performances, education programmes and community service creativities will be offered incorporation with the Melbourne Conservatorium, University of Melbourne, featuring more than a dozen famous jazz masters.
The events on International Jazz Day itself (30 April) is going to be concluded in an All-Star Global Concert which will held at the Melbourne Arts Centre’s popular Hamer Hall. The concert, which is hosted by a different city annually, is going to be broadcasted live to millions of audiences globally through YouTube, Facebook and a UNESCO webstream. This year in 2021, the concert will be held on Melbourne, Australia.
A sequence of jazz performances and outreach programmes are also going to take place in Adelaide, Mount Gambier, Sydney, Perth as well as other Australian cities. In the week previous to the International Jazz Day, the celebration is going to kick off with a jazz tutoring programme for student musicians in the native community of Yarrabah in Far Northern Australia, which will be followed by related programmes in Sydney for the students who are from New South Wales public schools.
There will be thousands of other programmes which will be held all over the world and it will celebrate jazz as a universal language of harmony, among them jazz-themed films, speeches, book readings, theatre acts and panel debates, as well as jam meetings, master classes, and radio and television broadcasts.
International Jazz Day 2021 Performers
Iconic jazz pianist Herbie Hancock (USA), as well as highly praised trumpeter James Morrison (Australia), is going to serve as artistic co-directors of the All-Star Global Concert. John Beasley (USA) will also serve as the evening’s musical director.
The concert itself is going to feature remarkable performances by international artists from more than a dozen nations performing at the concert. The performers who are confirmed are as follows:
Cieavash Arian (Iran), William Barton (Australia), Kurt Elling (U.S.), Till Brönner (Germany), A Bu (China), Igor Butman (Russian Federation), Mark Nightingale (United Kingdom), Lizz Wright (U.S.), Chico Pinheiro (Brazil), Ledisi (U.S.), Eli Degibri (Israel), Nathan Schreiber (Australia), Eijiro Nakagawa (Japan), Antonio Sánchez (Mexico), Matthew Jodrell (Australia), Dee Dee Bridgewater (U.S.), Tineke Postma (Netherlands), Somi (U.S.), and Tarek Yamani (Lebanon).
