Mount Fuji Jazz Festival
The Mount Fuji Jazz Festival was a 1986 to 1996 and most recently in 2004 over three days in August on the territory of a year Yamanaka lake at Mount Fuji hosted a jazz festival.
It was created in 1986 in collaboration with Alfred Lion and Blue Note Records , and accordingly many musicians from the label were also represented. These included Andrew Hill , Herbie Hancock , the Jazz Messengers , Dianne Reeves , Bobby Hutcherson , Michael Brecker , Chick Corea , Sadao Watanabe , John Scofield , Eliane Elias , Wynton Marsalis , McCoy Tyner , Joe Henderson , James Newton , Ron Carter , Tony Williams , Terumasa Hino , Horace Silver , Michel Petrucciani and Jackie McLean . The hallmarks were nightly All Star Jam Sessions and changing All Star Combo and Big Band lineups, often under the direction of Art Blakey.
There are films and live CDs from the festival, such as the 1992 recording of a concert by Albert Collins and The Icebreakers , which was released in 2005 as The Iceman at Mount Fuji . Recordings of Out of the Blue (1987) and Gonzalo Rubalcaba ( Images , 1992) are also available.
There were jazz festivals called Mount Fuji even before 1986.
The Mount Fuji Jazz Festival was one of the major international jazz festivals in Japan in the 1980s and 1990s, thanks to the success of the Live under the Sky Jazz Festival from 1977 to 1992, which took place in the Tokyo area as an open-air concert and with Herbie Hancock's VSOP quintet started, was triggered. Others were the Newport Jazz Festival in Madarao in a ski resort that was looking for attractions for the summer and which, with the help of George Wein , became an offshoot of his Newport Jazz Festival from 1982 (it lasted until 1994), and the Aurex Jazz Festival (Tokyo 1980 until 1984). The number of visitors to all of these annual concerts was in the tens of thousands. At the end of the 1990s, international jazz festivals in Japan included the Ocean Blue Jazz Festival in Hitachinaka , the Monterey Jazz Festival in Noto (named after the famous Californian Monterey Jazz Festival ) and the Fujitsu Concord Jazz Festival (named after the sponsors behind it Fujitsu and Concord Records ), in addition to local jazz festivals with predominantly Japanese musicians, which attracted over 400,000 visitors to around 50 local festivals in the late 1990s (mostly in July / August). The international Blue Note Group of jazz clubs and the worldwide JVC jazz festivals also came to Japan with offshoots in the 2000s.
Individual evidence
- ↑ David Meeker Jazz on Screen , 2004 with Lee Ritenour , Steps Ahead Reunion by Michael Brecker , Terumasa Hino Quintett
- ↑ Meeker Jazz on the Screen , so 1979 (with Carmen McRae ) and 1984 (with Lee Ritenour )
- ↑ The first International Jazz Festival in Japan took place in 1964, the World Jazz Festival with Miles Davis, JJ Johnson and Carmen McRae
- ^ History of the festival in Madarao
- ↑ Kiyoshi Koyama, Jazz in Japan , in: Bill Kirchner (Ed.) Oxford Companion to Jazz , Oxford University Press 2000, pp. 569f