PROGRAMME
Friday, 27 April 2012 - UNESCO Headquarters, Paris
This programme may be subject to modification
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
Rehearsal for the Evening Concert
12.00 – 16.00, Room I - LIMITED ACCESS
Open for observation
- Tania Maria
- Marcus Miller
- Hugh Masekela
- Biréli Lagrène
