International Jazz Day, a musical force that brings people together.

Jazz is incredibly popular in Indonesia and the Java Jazz Festival is one of the biggest jazz events in the world. Its guest list shows a very broad understanding of what jazz is. UNESCO feels the inportance of jazz so that it needs for an International Jazz Day.

Pianist and composer ade ishs latest albums will be released this month. One recording is of a trio and the other with a quartet. Source: Source: SCW - 10 May 2021.

Melborne’s pianist and composer originated from Indonesia, ade ishs took part to celebrate the Jazz International Day and explains why jazz has the ability to reach different people.

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Indonesia has a deep history of jazz The Indonesian All Stars worked with Tony Scott to record the classic Djanger Bali in 1967. Source: Source: SCW - 10 May 2021.