Mount Fuji Jazz Festival

Mount Fuji Jazz Festival

Mount Fuji Jazz Festival is an annual jazz festival held in August in the Lake Yamanaka area, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. The three-day festival features musicians from Blue Note Records and other, performing on different stages. 1986 - 1996. Alfred Lion came to this festival for the first time in 1986.

Notable artists at the MountFuji Jazz Festival include Andrew Hill, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter James Newton, Bobby Hutcherson, Michael Brecker, Jackie McLean, Jazz Messengers, George Kawaguchi, McCoy Tyner, Stanley Jordan, Dianne Reeves, Tony Williams, Chaka Khan, Don Pullen, Sadao Watanabe, Chick Corea, Wynton Marsalis, Terumasa Hino, Bob Belden, John Scofield, Lee Ritenour, Junko Onishi, US3, Joe Henderson, Murakami PONTA Shuichi and Pat Metheny.

Live under the sky (established in 1977), Newport Jazz Festival in Madarao (established in 1982) and Mount Fuji Jazz Festival (established in 1986) are the big 3 jazz festival in the history of jazz in Japan.[1]

Scenery

  • Mount Fuji Jazz Festival August 28, 1994

  • Mount Fuji Jazz Festival August 28, 1994

References

  1. ^ Big 3 Jazz Fess in Japan (in Japanese) (madarao-jazz.com). Retrieved 4 June 2010.

Coordinates: 35°25′09″N 138°54′05″E / 35.4192899°N 138.9014125°E / 35.4192899; 138.9014125


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