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Video clips, concert excerpts and interviews celebrating jazz from around the world.

Pianist Jacky Terrasson and trumpeter Stéphane Belmondo team up for a concert tinged with soul and with a touch of French singing, at the Jazz en Baie festival in Mont Saint-Michel.

Vibraphonist Gary Burton and pianist Makoto Ozone, both great jazz players noted for their virtuoso technique and innovative style perform at 'Münchner Klaviersommer', an annual concerts series that took place from 1981 to 1998 in Munich, Germany. The concerts were usually held in July at The Gas...

Dionne Warwick's vocal artistry ranges from voluminous deep register to soft, fragile high notes.

Video clips, concert excerpts and interviews celebrating jazz from around the world.

Estival is a summer jazz festival in Switzerland, Lugano which offers a particularly surprising line-up. The composer, trumpeter and bugle player Franco Ambrosetti performs with his quintet in his native Lugano.

Self-taught musician Less McCann became a world jazz star after the release of his 1968 album Swiss Movement, which he recorded with the late Eddie Harris. In this 1983 set, he brings gospel back to New Orleans.

In 1986, the acclaimed jazz fusion group Mahavishnu Orchestra, led by guitarist John McLaughlin, performed at the North Sea Jazz Festival. Jim Beard on keyboards, Jonas Hellborg on bass, Danny Gottlieb on drums and Bill Evans on saxophone.

Video clips, concert excerpts and interviews celebrating jazz from around the world.

Of the major soul-jazz pioneers, Jimmy McGriff was the bluesiest and often insisted that he was more of a blues musician than a jazz artist. Regardless, he remained eclectic enough to blur the lines of genres.

Two concerts from 1963 and 1970 presenting jazz singer Anita O'Day in impeccable form. O'Day's horn-based approach to singing is in full effect throughout both shows including renditions of audience favourites `Tea For Two' and `Sweet Georgia Brown'.

An insight into the life and career of improvisational vocalist and musician Vinx De'Jon Parrette. With a a lesson about perseverance, humility, hard work, focus, and the importance of choosing your own path through life.

Coverage of Tania Maria's performance from Lugano in Switzerland.

Since 1985, the Dutch city of Nijmegen has been welcoming the International Music Meeting Festival every Pentecost. Ranging from jazz and improvisational music to traditional music and unique crossovers, this adventurous festival is all about musical encounters and international collaborations. I...

An intimate and beautiful show in the antique theatre of Vienne.

Video clips, concert excerpts and interviews celebrating jazz from around the world.

Eddy King hosts unique performances by artists playing together for the first time, along with interviews with Cool Jam, Bibi Tanga, Kingsy Ray, and many others.

Video clips, concert excerpts and interviews celebrating jazz from around the world.

Former Earth, Wind & Fire member Al McKay and his band continue the legacy of the group that gripped the 80s, treating an audience to a concert on the piazza in Poschiavo for the Festival da Jazz.

The annual international festival November Music was first held in 1993. Its 2018 edition included jazz, avant-garde, world, and electronic music. One of the performers in 2018 was the singer Lucia Cadotsch.

The Hammond B3 organ takes centre stage. Rob Mostert invites the world's finest jazz musicians for a musical collaboration, in which the Hammond Organ plays a major role.

Video clips, concert excerpts and interviews celebrating jazz from around the world.

The combination of a harp with more conventional jazz instruments and electronic manipulation makes the Julie Campiche Quartet a unique ensemble in today's jazz world. A performance at the Hafensommer Festival 2016 in Würzburg, Germany.

A showcase of Erroll Garner's classic numbers.

Eric Vloeimans and Florian Weber perform a jazz set named `A Good Conversation'.

In 1980, Ray Charles brought the Raelettes and the Ray Charles Orchestra to the North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague. With the full force of these two groups behind him, Charles showcases his musical talents.

The Ricardo Herz Trio consists of Ricardo Herz on violin, Michi Ruzitschka on nylon string guitar, and Pedro Ito on percussion.

Among the artists presenting themselves at jazzahead! 2023 is Belgian-Japanese piano wizard Alex Koo. In his brand new 'Etudes for Piano', composed for and commissioned by BOZAR Brussels, he shows how his passion for jazz and classical music merge perfectly, like a marriage between Debussy, Chopi...

The international trade fair, exhibition, and festival, `Jazzahead!', is one of the most important events in the jazz community. Hosted annually in Bremen, Germany, it brings together musicians, agents, organisers, jazz experts and music enthusiasts.