From Thursday, July 12 2012 to Sunday, July 22 2012
The European capital of jazz.The International Jazz Festival in Juan-les-Pins (Antibes), is a reference point for all jazz fans. The first "Jazz in Juan", which was created to pay tribute to the town’s adopted son Sidney Bechet (1897–1959), the composer of "In the streets of Antibes", was held in 1960, making this jazz festival the longest running in Europe.But Antibes’s love of jazz began forty years earlier, when it became the meeting place in Europe for American intellectuals and modernists like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway in the Jazz Age.The annual jazz festival has celebrated the greats such as Louis Armstrong, and drawn the biggest international stars around, including Maurice Chevalier, Mistinguett and Charles Trénet. It also provides a platform for young prodigies, who have in the past included Marcus Miller, Wynton Marsalis, Salif Keita, Diana Krall, James Carter and Joshua Redman.2nd fortnight of July 2012
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