The Baku International Jazz Festival is an annual jazz event founded and organized by saxophonist and Baku resident Rain Sultanov.[1] The festival aims to showcase Azerbaijan's long-running attachment to jazz, a connection established in the country during the 1950s and 1960s when jazz was outlawed by Soviet authorities. The festival has welcomed musicians from Georgia, Portugal, Italy, Israel, United States, Germany, Canada, and Russia.
Acts appearing at the inaugural event in April 2005 included the Joe Zawinul Syndicate, Christoph Busse Trio from Germany, and Yakov Okun Quartet from Russia. The fourteen day event included a tribute Azerbaijani jazz musicians Rafig Babayev and his Gaya quartet and pianist Vagif Mustafa Zadeh. At the end of the first festival it was announced that the festival would become an annual event. In 2006 the festival took place from 19 to 27 June and was headlined by Herbie Hancock and Al Jarreau.
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fusion of jazz and mugham (a traditional improvisational style of Azerbaijan) with classical and avant-garde influences. Aziza was born in Baku to musical...
1959, in Baku) is an Azerbaijani jazz pianist and composer. Salman Huseyn oglu Gambarov is a jazz musician, theorist-musicologist and jazz composer....
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November 1989, Baku, Azerbaijan) is an Azerbaijani pianist and composer, winner of the Solo Piano Competition of the Montreux JazzFestival in 2009, Honorary...
the pioneers and "the architect of jazz in Azerbaijan". Mustafazadeh was born in Old City, the historic core of Baku, on March 16, 1940. His name was chosen...
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family of pediatricians, which was famous in Baku. His mother, Sona, was among the first graduates of the Baku-based school of the Russian Music Society...
International Center of Mugham created under the decree of Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev. In August of same year, on the territory of the Baku Boulevard...
the festival, Gabala welcomed several orchestras such as Tbilisi City Hall Jazz Orchestra "BIG-BAND (Georgia), Jóvenes Clásicos Del Son (Cuba), Baku Chamber...
contest in 2012, in Baku. The biggest pop stars in Azerbaijan are arguably Roya, Aygun Kazimova and Brilliant Dadashova. The Azerbaijani jazz is a popular variety...
sphere of jazz music, always participating at jazzfestivals. In 1967, Rafig Babayev's ensemble became a laureate of the InternationalJazzFestival in Tallinn...
Miles Davis in most jazz clubs of Baku and Germany. In 1998, “Syndicate” group received an invitation to internationaljazzfestival in Novosibirsk and...
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later found Yuxu. Years after first festival was held in Baku on 1 May 1988 - "Rock Panorama". "Rock Panorama 2" festival was held in 1989, which was larger...
2012 was the 57th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Baku, Azerbaijan, following the country's victory at the 2011 contest with the...
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