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The “Association of Jazz & Creative Music” was created in 2003 in Thessaloniki in order to highlight jazz music in the city, to embrace the friends of jazz through events and gatherings which exist to strengthen this common love that binds them, and for the city to learn its own musicians through bands that were firstly created back then.


For ten years, more than 100 musicians, (some of the best musician of the world musical scene) such as Mike Stern, Dennis Chambers, Anthony Jackson, Victor Wooten, Joe Zawinul, Pat Martino, Dave Weckl, Steve Gadd, Bireli Lagrene, John Scoffield, Scott Henderson and many others came to play, to do seminars, & workshops and to do recording


A look at the jazz history through pictures and posters

02 February 2012

What is jazz ?


“Man, if you gotta ask you’ll never know” … “What we play is life.” Louis Armstrong

02 February 2012

Youn Sun Nah


“a UFO touching the universe of jazz with a magnificent voice and passionate originality; Jubilation in triple time” Le Monde


One of the greatest voices of the twentieth century, Mahalia Jackson died 40 years ago on January 27, 1972. She is probably one of the best known Gospel singers. “Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.”Mahalia Jackson
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