If you love Jazz you won't want to miss this special event. The International Jazz Day Event led by the goodwill ambassador Herbie Hancock at UNESCO France will celebrate jazz in all its forms, with concerts, master classes, lectures and exhibits. Enjoy a live video stream of the festival here at cratesofjr which begins at 14:00 Paris France time and 1PM Eastern Standard USA time. A re-stream will also be available once the event is finished, courtesy of website TSF Jazz.


Here is the full schedule of events and participating speakers/performers in Paris France time (Paris is currently 6 hours ahead of Washington DC):






Opening of the first International Jazz Day


10.00 – 10.30, Miró Halls
By Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, and Herbie Hancock, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador




Events all day long


Live coverage by French Paris TSF JAZZ radio


Photo exhibitions by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and Philippe
Lévy-Stab (Miró Halls)


Duke Ellington photo exhibition by the Maison du Duke in partnership with the Académie du jazz, France (Foyer)


Screening of photo montage by Blue Note Records (Foyer)


Montreux Jazz Lounge


Hosted by the Montreux Jazz Festival, with screening of legendary performances (Pas Perdus Room)




PERFORMANCES


10.15 – 14.00, Miró Halls


10.15 Tigran


11.00 Swan Berger


11.30 Riccardo Del Fra


12.00 Raphael Gualazzi


12.30 Hamid El Kasri


13.30 Paris Conservatory Sextet


14.00 – 17.00, Miró Halls


14.00 Berklee Global Jazz Institute


14.30 Ilham Al Madfai


15.00 Giovanni Mirabassi


16.00 Paul Lay and Helene Arntzen


16.30 Dominique Fillon




MASTER CLASSES/”RENCONTRES” AND DANCE DEMONSTRATION
Master Classes: morning


Room I


10.30 Herbie Hancock


11.00 Dee Dee Bridgewater


Room IV - LIMITED ACCESS (150 seats)


10.15 Ibrahim Maalouf


11.00 Hugh Masekela


12.00 Barbara Hendricks


Japanese Garden


11.15 Nicole Slack Jones "I Sing" for Babies


"Google Jazz Experiment"


12.00, Room II




Software programmers share their latest music inventions for recording, composition and visualization
Master classes: afternoon


Room II


14.30 Klaus Doldinger


16.30 Nicole Slack Jones "I Sing"


Room IV - LIMITED ACCESS (150 seats)


14.00 Marcus Miller


16.30 Biréli Lagrène and Lionel Loueke


Jazz and Dance Demonstration


14.30, Foyer


By Fabien Ruiz, choreographer of the film "The Artist"


Hosted by the Académie du jazz (France)




JAZZ TALKS
10.30 – 12.30, Room II




“Jazz and Cinema: Great Stories of an Old Couple”


Hosted by the Académie du Jazz, featuring:


Bertrand Tavernier, Film Director


Vladimir Cosma, Soundtrack Composer


François Lacharme, President of the Académie du Jazz, Paris


Julien Delli Fiori, Director of FIP radio station


Thierry Jousse, Radio Producer, Director and Film Critic


John Edward Hasse, Curator of American Music, Smithsonian Institution


14.30-15.30 Room X






“Jazz as a Voice of Liberty – its Role in the Struggle for Democracy” Hosted by the
Permanent Delegation of Germany to UNESCO, featuring:


Martina Nibbeling-Wrießnig, Ambassador, Permanent Delegate of Germany to UNESCO - Moderator


John Edward Hasse, Curator of American Music at


the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum


of American History


Daniel Konrad, Jazz Expert (Czech Republic)


Rainer E. Lotz, Jazz Expert (Germany)


Nicolas Pflug, President Blue Note Records


Tomasz Tluczkiewicz, Jazz Expert (Poland)


15.30, Room IV - LIMITED ACCESS (150 seats)


“Global Jazz and Peace”, by Danilo Perez and Wayne Shorter


Live from New York City


Organized by the Berklee Global Jazz Institute




FILMS AND SCREENINGS
13.00, Room II


“ Round Midnight” by Bertrand Tavernier


13.00, Room IV - LIMITED ACCESS (150 seats)


Film and Jazz Performance


"Latif", silent film, with the Salman Gambarov & Bakustic Jazz
15.30, Room II


Projection of the 1976 concert of Nina Simone in Montreux


Presentation by Claude Nobs