"When a human being is oppressed, the natural tendency is to feel anger. Jazz is a response to oppression that is not bullets and blood. Jazz is the expression of harmony ... and at the same time of hope and freedom."- Herbie Hancock, legendary jazz pianist and composer and UNESCO Ambassador for Intercultural Dialogue
28 April 2017 - This weekend across the world, people are celebrating jazz music, its history and its culture. Havana, Cuba, is the host of the sixth annual United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) International Jazz Day. Here is a small selection of events that are happening around Europe!
Belgium
Jazz station Big Band vs. Swingalicious Big Band, Chaussée de Louvain 193a-19, Bruxelles, Belgium 1210
Be Jazz Be Brussels! Flagey and square, Brussels, Belgium 1000
Banda Bruselas, Place Saint Job, Uccle, Belgium 1180
Metronome Jazz Club | Jazz Day in Verviers, Rue du Manège 14, Verviers, Belgium 4800
France
Jazz Evening with Ramona Horvath , Nicolas Rageau , Philippe Soirat & guests, 123, Rue Saint Dominique, Paris, France 75007
Le Paris Downtown fête le Jazz, Rue du cinema, Paris, France 75001
Paris Downtown Big Band celebrates Jazz, 10 Passage de La Canopée, 75001 Paris, France, Paris, France
#JazzDay Impro Big Band, 6 rue Chaponnay, Lyon, France 69003
Germany
JAZZ, JAM & FOOD, Wissmansstrasse 32, Berlin, Berlin, Germany 12049
Schweriner Jazznacht 2017, Puschkinstraße 3, Schwerin, Germany D-19055 Schwerin
International Jazz Day im Café Marlene, Forststraße 21, Velbert, Germany D-42549
Greece
LIEBMAN / SWALLOW / NUSSBAUM - WE THREE @ HALF NOTE JAZZ CLUB, 17, Trivonianou Street, Athens, Greece 116 36
Sounds and Images of Jazz: Home Sessions celebrating IJD 2017, Zappa 4, Athens, Greece
Ireland
La Pompe, Houston House, Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland EIRE
Bray Jazz Festival, Bray Civic Plaza, Bray, Ireland A98 N5P1
Italy
COMPLEANNO CASA DEL JAZZ / INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY, viale di Porta Ardeatina 55, Rome, RM, Italy 00153
International Jazz Day | Foggia | A cena con Miles, Via Camporeale km 1,200, Foggia, Italy Italy
EUROPEAN JAZZ CONNECTION / GREG LAMY QUARTET feat. MARCO MASSA, Piazza Gae Aulenti 10, Milano, Italy
JAZZ TO NEPAL Torino - International Jazz Day UNESCO, Corso Moncalieri, 18, 10133 Torino, Italia, Torino, Italy
The Netherlands
AARON PARKS TRIO, Piet Heinkade 3, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1019 BR
Norway
Building Bridges (Oslo), Munkedamsveien 14, Oslo, Norway 0250
SODDJAZZ, Sakshaug, Inderøy, Norway 7670
Portugal
JAZZ 24 - António Lamoso Jazz Cycle, Rua Professor Egas Moniz, nº11, Santa Maria da Feira, Aveiro, Portugal 4524-244
Pauta Jazz, Largo Dr. António Breda, 27, Águeda, Portugal
Spain
Club Jazz @ Casa del Rio celebrates International Jazz Day in Sunny Spain, Calle Malaga, 10, Alozaina, Spain 29567
Dia Internacional de Jazz JAZZALICANTE, Avda Aguilera 1, ALICANTE, Spain 03007
Internacional del Jazz - Festival Sedajazz, Plaça de l'Ajuntament, 1, Valencia, Spain
ARANJAZZ 2017 "INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY", Calle de San Antonio, 68, Aranjuez, Madrid, Spain 28300
United Kingdom
Late Night Studio Jazz Presents: NYOS Jazz Collective, 2 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom G2 3NY
Birmingham // International Jazz Day, 17 Lower Trinity St, Birmingham B9 4AG, UK, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Lift to the Scaffold Screening + Live Music and Q&A, 17 Queensberry Place, London, United Kingdom SW7 2DT
For more information about International Jazz Day and for a full list of events, go to jazzday.com
Follow International Jazz Day on Twitter @UNESCO #JazzDay
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