Live Under the Sky (festival)

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Live Under the Sky was an annual jazz festival held in summer, July and August, at the Denen Coliseum and Yomiuriland in Tokyo and other areas in Japan. The multiple day festival featured musicians from Japan and other countries performing on different stages. It was held from 1977 – 1992.

Live Under the Sky, Newport Jazz Festival in Madarao (established in 1982) and Mount Fuji Jazz Festival (established in 1986) are the big three jazz festivals in the history of jazz in Japan.[1]

Notable artists

Notable artists at Live Under the Sky were

Related recordings

References

  1. ^ 日本のジャズ・フェスティバルの歴史 Archived 18 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine (madarao-jazz.com)
  2. ^ Carlos Santana The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light 0316244910 2014 "By 1981, it felt like the spirit of the '60s had left America and gone overseas— that was the year Santana played the Live under the Sky festival in Japan, an event that put rock and jazz together. Santana played, Herbie Hancock's V.S.O.P. band played, and then we played together, along with Herbie and Tony Williams. The old Fillmore Auditorium spirit was alive again—there, anyway...."
  3. ^ "Harold Smiley Davis". Drum Solo Artist. Archived from the original on 29 September 2011. Retrieved 18 August 2011.

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